{"id":1183,"date":"2013-05-09T06:57:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T04:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2013-05-09T06:57:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T04:57:16","slug":"first-flight-of-dutch-balloon-trophy-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/2013\/05\/09\/first-flight-of-dutch-balloon-trophy-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"First flight of Dutch Balloon Trophy 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a246cb021816c9f476ac16cb834b7362\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2865779868887008\";\r\n\/* Android box *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1345074415\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The wind measuring at 2300 gave winds of over 20 knts and the forcast was not much better. When a thunderstorm started at 0100 were close to cancelling the first flight but decided to do the windmeasuring at 0300 to see what had happened.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-05-09-05.56.29.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1185\" alt=\"First flight of DBT 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-05-09-05.56.29-1024x614.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-05-09-05.56.29-1024x614.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-05-09-05.56.29-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-05-09-05.56.29-768x461.jpg 768w, http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-05-09-05.56.29.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a surprise, winds below 10 knts in the piball and pretty stable atmosphere in the forecast. We can see a flight in this forecast.<\/p><!--CusAds0-->\n<p>The tasks were set, the wind measured again, the tasks were changed, target teams send away. A cold front is coming our way so the task briefing is short and compact so we can start the launch period as soon as sunrise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-05-09-05.50.362.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1189\" alt=\"First flight of DBT 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-05-09-05.50.362-1024x231.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-05-09-05.50.362-1024x231.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-05-09-05.50.362-300x68.jpg 300w, http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-05-09-05.50.362-768x173.jpg 768w, http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-05-09-05.50.362.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Within 20 minutes 25 balloons have launched for a fast flight with minimal flight conditions, they are of for a Pilot Declared Goal, Judge Declared Goal and Hesitation Waltz.<br \/>\nNow we are waiting for everyone to come back safely and we can start calculating the results.<br \/>\nWhat a morning&#8230;..<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1184\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Sanne.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1184\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1184 \" alt=\"Sanne Haarhuis, Deputy Director\" src=\"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Sanne.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sanne Haarhuis, Deputy Director DBT 2013<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The task Sheet of the first flight on the <a href=\"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/?p=1113\">Electronic Notice Board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wind measuring at 2300 gave winds of over 20 knts and the forcast was not much better. When a thunderstorm started at 0100 were close to cancelling the first flight but decided to do the windmeasuring at 0300 to see what had happened. What a surprise, winds below 10 knts in the piball and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,13,15,24,28],"tags":[55,97,101,145,174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}