After the balloon fabric has been attached to the gondola and stretched along the ground to its' full length, two large gasoline powered fans (lower left of photo 1) blow the cold morning air into the mouth of the balloon slowly giving it shape.
Mike, the balloon Captain, gave us permission to photograph into the partially cold-inflated ballooncapturing the hemispherical shaped inflated portion and the flattened edges along the ground slowly being pulled from the center mass of the rest of the bag's fabric. (photo 2)
Now that the balloon has a goodly portion of its' inflation from the cold air fans, it is safe to fire the propane heaters attached to the gondola to slowly give lift to the massive balloon. (photo 3)
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