Tag: labor day lift off
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USAFA’s Wings of Blue soar at the Labor Day Lift Off amid grounded balloons
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Poor weather conditions forced organizers to cancel the first launch of the three-day Labor Day Lift Off on Saturday in Memorial Park. Gloomy weather also nixed a static display and remote controlled balloons. Still, balloon pilots and the Air Force Academy’s Wings of Blue spent time…
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Colorado Springs Labor Day Lift Off: What to know before you go
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs will be looking to the sky as a beloved Labor Day weekend festival returns this weekend. The Labor Day Lift Off is back this Saturday, with dozens of hot air balloons set to float over Colorado Springs. The free annual festival will run…
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Motorcyclist arrested after allegedly driving through Labor Day Lift Off event barricades
Colorado Springs police arrested a motorcyclist they said broke through barricades at the annual Labor Day Lift Off event Sunday night and then tried to flee the scene. Officers working the event said around 7:25 p.m. Sunday evening, during the annual Labor Day Lift Off balloon glow event, they reported Christopher Easton had broken the barricades…
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Labor Day Lift Off honors late co-producer Scott Appelman
Scott Appelman was all about the spectacle. As co-producer of the annual Labor Day Lift Off, Appelman was dedicated to making each event more eye-popping and jaw-dropping than the last. “He was quite the showman,” said Heather Appelman, Scott’s wife. “He was always striving for more, and better, and bigger in all things, at all…
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Colorado Springs from the air: A Labor Day Lift Off hot air balloon experience
From thousands of feet in the air, I look out over Colorado Springs from a vantage point I’ve never had until now. “Is this your first time?” Melody Landon asked the question about 30 minutes earlier — when our feet were still on solid, grassy ground at Memorial Park — as my colleague, photojournalist Christian Murdock,…
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Hundreds of volunteers play essential role in Pikes Peak Regional Airshow operations
Because of its main features, the Pikes Peak Regional Airshow compels people to look to the skies. With their soaring, swooping aerobatics, the aircraft and their crews garner most of the attention. But the biyearly event is a massive undertaking made possible by hundreds of people on the ground, many of whom are volunteers, said…
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Labor Day Lift Off’s Scott Appelman has died
Scott Appelman, co-producer of the Colorado Springs Labor Day Lift Off hot air balloon festival, has died, according to a news release Thursday. Appelman, 66, was the founder and president of Rainbow Ryders and managing partner of Hot Apple Productions, which together with the Colorado Springs Sports Corp., put on the annual Labor Day weekend…
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SCENES FROM | Labor Day Lift Off 2022
Sights and sounds from the 46th annual Labor Day Lift Off in Colorado Springs.
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Splash-and-dash at Monday’s Labor Day Lift Off
Labor Day Lift Off festivities continued Monday with the ‘splash-and-dash,’ where balloonists dip their baskets into Prospect Lake.
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NEWS | Labor Day Lift Off 2021
Over 70 hot air balloons took off from Memorial Park this weekend for this year’s Labor Day Lift Off. (Video by Katie Klann & Skyler Ballard)