Photo gallery: Balloons lift off Friday morning
Published 10:36 am Friday, October 17, 2014
- A hot air balloon flies during Friday morning’s media flight of the Great Mississippi River Balloon Race. (Sam Gause / The Natchez Democrat)
- Charles Venable inflates his hot air balloon during Friday morning’s media flight of the Great Mississippi River Balloon Race. (Sam Gause / The Natchez Democrat)
- Hot air balloons fly during Friday morning’s media flight of the Great Mississippi River Balloon Race. (Sam Gause / The Natchez Democrat)
- A Natchez High School students walks through the Natchez High School parking lot as seen from a hot air balloon during Friday morning’s media flight of the Great Mississippi River Balloon Race. (Sam Gause / The Natchez Democrat)
- Hot air balloon pilot Charles Venable tests the burner on his hot air balloon during Friday morning’s media flight of the Great Mississippi River Balloon Race. (Sam Gause / The Natchez Democrat)
- Jaime Chaffin, left, and Maria Lambert, right, help unroll Charles Venable’s hot air balloon during Friday morning’s media flight of the Great Mississippi River Balloon Race. (Sam Gause / The Natchez Democrat)
- Ballons lift off from the Natchez campus of Alcorn State University and Copiah-Lincoln Community College. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)
- Ballons lift off from the Natchez campus of Alcorn State University and Copiah-Lincoln COmmunity College. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)
- The sun rises over the Mississippi River levee near the Vidalia Bungee grain elevator as crews wait for hot-air balloon pilot Jason Gaines to take off and fly across the Mississippi River bridges to downtown Natchez Thursday morning. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)
- Ballons lift off from the Natchez campus of Alcorn State University and Copiah-Lincoln Community College. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)
- Ballons lift off from the Natchez campus of Alcorn State University and Copiah-Lincoln Community College. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)
- Ballons lift off from the Natchez campus of Alcorn State University and Copiah-Lincoln Community College. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)
- Ballons lift off from the Natchez campus of Alcorn State University and Copiah-Lincoln Community College. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)
- Ballons lift off from the Natchez campus of Alcorn State University and Copiah-Lincoln Community College. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)
- Robert and Sally Upton’s Jester Balloon begins to inflate at the Copiah-Lincoln Community College Natchez campus Friday morning. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)
- Bill Cunningham flies in as the hare balloon in Friday morning’s race. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)