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This is what makes the Albuquerque ballon festival kind of unique (they call it the box). Balloons take off fly away, change altitude and fly back to land in

• dylan604 4y ago
  well, you almost got it. you forgot the part where the fly past for a distance so that when they start to lower altitude, it brings them back to the start. what you describe doesn't really make a box
  • hgsgm 4y ago
    What is "the fly past for a distance"?
    • ianai 4y ago
      IIRC it’s related to the nearby mountains. Fly up, pushed towards mountains, go lower, pushed back towards the river/valley were launched. I feel for other people who didn’t get to grow up seeing those balloons every year on their way to school or random times. NM also has the “original burning man” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zozobra https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zozobra.
    • dylan604 4y ago
      Just to put numbers on it for example…Say they travel 1 mile down range where they then rise in altitude. Now, they float back 2 miles before lowering altitude to travel back 1 mile to where they started. They fly past for a 1 mile distance in this example