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Balloons Aloft: Flying South Dakota Skies: by Arley K. Fadness
Balloons Aloft: Flying South Dakota Skies, highlights significant
ballooning events and pioneering aeronauts in South Dakota. On the
150th anniversary publication of Jules Verne's classic Cinq
Semaines En Balloon (Five Weeks in a Balloon), Balloons Aloft:
relives the same imagination, daring risks and courageous
adventures that characterized not only Verne's novel, but also, and
prophetically -- the history, art and science of ballooning in
South Dakota and beyond. Arley Fadness writes as a former employee
and friend of Ed Yost, the Father of the Modern Hot Air Balloon.
Balloons Aloft: offers the reader a fascinating balloon ride
through stories, ancedotes and adventures of celebrated aeronauts.
Balloons Aloft chronicles the history of Ballooning in it's many
different forms in South Dakota. For a state with a small
population, South Dakota has been a major player in ballooning
worldwide. This book gives an entertaining and informative
perspective on the key characters connected to ballooning in the
20th century. Arley Fadness is in a unique position to give
eyewitness views of many of these pioneers in modern ballooning.
Norma Kraemer, pilot and author of Images of Aviation South
Dakota's First Century of flight. Arley K. Fadness, draftsman,
Model A Ford restorer, Pastor and writer was born in Webster, SD.
He attended the Boeing drafting school, as well as Luther and
McCormick Seminaries. Arley is a retired ELCA Lutheran Pastor
having served congregations in Arizona, Minnesota and South Dakota.
He is the author of several books including Six Spiritual Needs in
America Today; Holy Moses; and Blueprints for Lent. Arley is
married to Pamela and the couple have four adult children, Timothy,
Susan, Joel, and Rebekah. Arley and Pam love the beautiful Black
Hills where they live, hike, bike and dabble in things
Scandinavian.
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