September, 2023 Top Gun Flying Event Champion, Ian Whitling
Congratulation to Top Gun's September Flying event Champion, Ian Whitling!
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Congratulation to Top Gun's September Flying event Champion, Ian Whitling!
Congratulations to our August, 2023 Top Gun Champion, Peg Billson! We had 17 pilots registered, and 10 actually flew. Although it was a 2 day event, only Saturday was flyable. Sunday...just a bit windy with some shears aloft.
Congratulations to Top Gun's Natasha Stanke on her 2nd place finish at the US Women's Nationals held in Jackson, MI last month. It was an exciting competition with several lead changes. Natasha was in the hunt to overtake first place, but just ran out of time, as the last scheduled day of competition was cancelled due to weather. Top Gun's...
US Nationals were held in Longview, Texas at the Great Texas Balloon Race June 12 - 18, 2023. Congratulations to Top Gun Pilot Bruce Wood our new US National Champion! Additionally, Elisa Talbert was the top Women's finisher, and Natasha Stanke was Rookie of the Year! Also, in the Young Guns competition, Top Gun's Zack Maxwell placed third and Ryan...
Congratulations to Jeff Duff, Top Gun's June 2023 Champion. Everyone's task results and the updated year to date Ranking can be viewed on the About Us > Standings page.
Congratulation to our 2023 Rio Grande Classic Overall Champion, Rhett Heartsill. This is Rhett's second year back to back win. Congratulations to our Regional Champion, Trent Caldwell. Trent also captured the State Championship title, as well. Way to go guys!
Top Gun will be utilizing Balloon Live for our upcoming RGC event. If you missed Zerek's training session on Saturday 4/15/23, or if you have not used the app before or need a refresher, here is a link to a 12 minute video on how to use the app. This can also be found in the Member Documents page of...
3/29/23 - Congratulations to Collin McClung of Top Gun Ballooning! BFA/HACD's 2022 Rookie of the Year! Collin is a Top Gun Board Member and our Club Secretary. Collin received a cash award of $300 from HACD for his achievement. Another great benefit for being a member of the BFA/HACD.
3/27/23 - The weather didn't cooperate for our March event. Ian, our Event Director, had called great tasks for Saturday, but we all knew that the winds were going to be too strong to get in the air. Ian held a short session at the end of the briefing to answer questions and discuss strategy had we been able to...
February Top Gun is in the books... and Trent Caldwell came out on top! Saw some great performances from some first timers to! Welcome to Top Gun JB Akin, Nicholas Abrams, Zach Maxwell and Ryan Byer!