{"id":43,"date":"2006-01-30T20:35:53","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T01:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2006-12-03T16:46:43","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T21:46:43","slug":"and-across-the-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"And Across the Finish Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First inflation today was an unqualified success.<\/p>\n<p>Big smiles all around.<\/p>\n<p>We spent a good part of the day fiddling with this and that while waiting for the light winds to die. As a result, the inflation proper didn&#8217;t start until nearly sunset. So Kevin got the balloon stood up, but the pictures we were able to take are of only marginal quality. Ah well, here are a few shots anyway. More pictures and details to follow on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>As always, you can click on each of the &#8220;thumbnails&#8221; below to get a full sized picture.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture looking in the mouth towards the top. That&#8217;s Kevin working out some nits:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"view towards mouth during inflation\" class=\"imagelink\" onclick=\"doPopup(40);return false;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/kevin_inside.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" alt=\"view towards mouth during inflation\" id=\"image40\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/kevin_inside.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of the balloon looking towards the mouth during inflation:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"view from a distance\" class=\"imagelink\" onclick=\"doPopup(41);return false;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/from_uphill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"122\" height=\"96\" alt=\"view from a distance\" id=\"image41\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/from_uphill.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of the balloon standing up for the first time, 22 days after cutting the first of the fabric. The photo is a bit blurry due to the coming darkness and necessarily long shutter time. The image has been enhanced by Jon Radowski (Thanks Jon):<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"improved full view at dusk\" class=\"imagelink\" onclick=\"doPopup(44);return false;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/improved_full_view_dusk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"61\" height=\"96\" alt=\"improved full view at dusk\" id=\"image44\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/improved_full_view_dusk.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First inflation today was an unqualified success. Big smiles all around. We spent a good part of the day fiddling with this and that while waiting for the light winds to die. As a result, the inflation proper didn&#8217;t start until nearly sunset. So Kevin got the balloon stood up, but the pictures we were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}