CTBA Ballooning Library


CHECK IT OUT!

April 2008

Tim Baggett has graciously agreed to be the new club librarian. Thank You Tim! The library is usually brought to the general club meetings where members can rummage through it in search of things to borrow for a month until th following general meeting.

The following list is what's in the library.

Educational - Video - Books

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EDUCATIONAL/INFORMATIONAL

BFA Ballooning magazine (Several Years)

BFA Skylines (2 years)

BFA 1998 Member Roster

BFA Ground Crew Manual

Working Your Way From the Ground Up (a chase crew training manual)

Landowner Relations

How To Fly A Balloon

Private Pilot Written Test Guide

Recreational Pilot & Private Pilot Written Test Book

Commercial Pilot Question Book

Commercial Pilot Written Test Book

BFA Commercial Pilot Practical Test Standards for LTA

BFA Flight Instructor Manual

Aviation Instructor's Handbook

Balloon Instructor's Manual

BFA Propane Systems

Flammable Gases

LP Gas Safety Rules

Flying Safe

Ballooning In The Mountains

Aviation Weather Services

Aviation Weather

Fire Weather

Peterson Field Guide for Atmosphere

TX Aeronautics Commission--Airports ('89)

Pilot & Aircraft Owners Legal Guide

Far Aim '93 and Aim '94

1991 NTBA Safety Seminar

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VIDEOS

Airspace Reclassification

Balloon Safety

Channel Champ Crossing and interview with Ed Yost by Don Piccard

KAIBF 1986

KAIBF 1989

Magic In The Air (AIBF)

Night Crossing

Race The Atlantic

Safety Seminar -- Plano '89

Up/Over/Down Under

From the Ground Up (Crew Training hosted by founding club member Dan Sherrill)

Sunrise/Sunset

Sunrise/Sunset III

Sunrise/Sunset IV

Harris Branch 1990

Maryland Preakness 1991

Maryland Preakness 1992

Poteet Strawberry Fest 1993

 

Phantom Video produced by club members Chris & Martin Theophilus

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BOOKS

Above the Lost World

The Aeronauts

Aerospace Balloons -- From Montgolfiere To Space

Bags Up! Great Balloon Adventures

Balloon Digest

Ballooning -- The Complete Guide to Riding the Winds

Double Eagle

Free Fall in Crimson -- John D. Mac Donald

Hot Air Balloons

Malcolm Forbes -- Around the World On Hot Air And Two Wheels

Taming The Gentle Giant -- A Guide To Hot Air Ballooning

The Challengers -- A Century of Ballooning

The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation

The Noon Balloon To Rangoon - John Haase

The 21 Balloons -- William Pene du Bois

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"Content consultant" club member Rusty Kaim.