Ian Ashpole This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. Hot Air Balloons

   gpss.npl.com/onballoo.htm - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/19/2008   Last Visited: 6/2/2008

   Most of the information on this page is really old - it was way back in August 1996 that the UK BBAC Sensitive Area data was first made available for free use with GPSS, due to the good work of Derek Belton - put in touch with me by Ian Ashpole.
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   Ian Ashpole of Flying Pictures first 'flight tested' this software in the Samsung Balloon in the summer of 1996.

2. 2. WebComms.Com

   www.webcomms.com/art28.htm - [Cached]

   Published on: 10/26/2002   Last Visited: 7/9/2003

   Ian Ashpole, Chief Pilot of Flying Pictures, gave me a ride in his balloon. He described a typical day, flying his plane to work, then ballooning or skydiving all day long. And getting paid for it. He loved his work and his company turns over more than £6 million p.a. Being tethered to a Range Rover for three days and not being able to go further than the end of the rope must have been boring for him. To me it was fantastically exciting and if he had suggested cutting loose and heading for Europe there would have been no argument from me. I trusted the technology and his knowledge of it and he would not have had any difficulty in getting me to rent a ride in it while he was the operator. I wasn't thinking of what could go wrong. Why? Because he was in the balloon too.

3. 3. www.baileyballoons.co.uk

   www.baileyballoons.co.uk/pilot - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/12/2007   Last Visited: 2/24/2008

   Clive also loves planning and executing ballooning stunts, including Flying stuntman and balloon pilot Ian Ashpole on top of the Discovery Channel balloon, flying two balloons attached together by a tight rope and having fellow pilot Mike Howard walk between the balloons blindfolded at 3,500 feet.