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The distinctive shape of "Sunny Boy" inflating ready to fly at the Balloons Over Waikato festival Various Balloons lifting off from Innes Common 2010 Night glow at the festival. Balloons over Waikato is an annual hot air balloon festival held in Hamilton, New Zealand since 1999 by the non-profit organisation Balloons over Waikato Trust. The ...
The name is the subject of a 1960 song by the New Zealand balladeer Peter Cape. [11] It appears in the 1976 (re-released in 1979) single "The Lone Ranger" by British band Quantum Jump, which featured in the title sequence of the second series of The Kenny Everett Video Show. [citation needed]
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Balloon is located in a marine west coast climate zone. [6] Prevailing westerly winds blow moist air from the Tasman Sea onto the mountains, where the air is forced upward by the mountains ( orographic lift ), causing moisture to drop in the form of rain or snow.
Off the coast of Christchurch, New Zealand Strong winds forced the balloon to ditch into the sea, killing three people. Others survived. [45] 3 0 21 July 1997 Death of Audrey Jones North Ferriby, England A woman celebrating her 75th birthday was killed and 11 other passengers were injured when their balloon hit powerlines and crashed to the ground.
The Sunrise balloon-borne solar observatory consists of a 1m aperture Gregory telescope, a UV filter imager, an imaging vector polarimeter, an image stabilization system and further infrastructure. The first science flight of Sunrise yielded high-quality data that reveal the structure, dynamics and evolution of solar convection, oscillations ...
Sunrise Earth is a nature documentary television series that last aired in the United States in 2008 on HD Theater (originally Discovery HD Theater), which has since been reformatted and rebranded as Velocity. The series focused on presenting the viewer with sunrises in various geographical locations throughout the world. [1]
Mowbray grew up in Cambridge, New Zealand, and was educated at St Peter's School. [2] His parents owned a dairy farm [3] and Matangi dairy factory. [4] As a teenager, he helped his elder brother Mat to manufacture hot air balloons from Coke cans and plastic bags. After school, he started a law degree but dropped out in his first year. [3]
Sunrise was a New Zealand breakfast television news and current affairs programme which was broadcast live on TV3 between 2007 [1] and 2010. [2] It aired from 7.00am to 9.00am weekdays, and the show featured all the latest current affairs, News, Sport, Business and Weather. The programme followed ASB Business at 6.30am.