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December, 2023 Top Gun First Place - Congratulations Janet Patton visiting from Texas! This month's event was called by our Event Director, Stacy Eldridge. Stacy called three tasks consisting of a PDG with a minimum altitude, a JDG gravity drop, and a JDG free marker drop. Strategy for approaching these tasks was the challenge, as the winds aloft were a...
November, 2023 Top Gun First Place - Congratulations Peg Bilson! Peg trampled the field of 13 Pilots with a total score of 2,696 on the three tasks called. November was supposed to be a two day event, but the weather was not cooperating on Sunday, so Sunday's flight was called off. Our Event Director this month was Natasha Stanke. Thank...
October, 2023 Top Gun First Place - Congratulations Derek Grassbaugh! See the Current Standings page for details. This month's event was called by our Event Director, Jeff Ashworth. Jeff called three tasks consisting of a Hesitation Waltz, an Elbow, and a Pilot Declared Goal. Strategy for approaching these tasks was the challenge. Thank you Jeff! We are quickly approaching the end...
Congratulation to Top Gun's September Flying event First Place, Ian Whitling!
Congratulations to our August, 2023 Top Gun First Place, 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...
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