Visitors couldn t feel the wind from the field, but the special shapes morning flight was turned into a static show as high wind possibilities made flying unsafe.
Rainbow Ryders’s hot air balloons have graced the skies of Albuquerque for 40 years, but years before Scott Appelman (UNM ‘81) founded one of the largest hot air ballooning companies in the world, he was a teenage boy ditching class to help a balloon.