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  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist makes a pre-flight check before soaring above the San Joaquin valley near Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0015.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist, preps his balloons at the Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0024.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist makes a last minute preflight check before flying over  over Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0016.jpg
  • John Ninomiya and associate make a pre-flight check before lift off in Coalinga.
    Cluster Ballooning 0019.jpg
  • Ninomiya, who has flown with helium balloons more than a dozen times, needs the calm pre-dawn conditions for a successful flight, which will last a few hours and take him to 4200 feet.
    Cluster Ballooning 0014.jpg
  • Experimental balloonist Bob Nungester of Cupertino rises in his lawn chair near Coalinga, California.  FAA regulations govern experimental aircraft flights like these which must take place away from high trafficked areas.
    scf4373-447_Cluster Ballooning 0025.jpg
  • Experimental balloonist Bob Nungester of Cupertino rises in his lawn chair near Coalinga, California.  FAA regulations govern experimental aircraft flights like these which must take place away from high trafficked areas.
    Cluster Ballooning 0025.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin valley near Coalinga.  Cutting Balloons away to descend and dumping water from water containers by his side to rise Ninomiya can control his altitute and to an extent, his direction of travel.
    scf4327-250cluster ballooning 0003.jpg
  • Balloons rise into the dawn at Coalinga, California ballooning festival.  Special jets of propane light up the interiors of the balloons to produce a dazzling effect.
    Cluster Ballooning 0027.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist gets help from voluteers at Coalinga, California.  Ninomiya uses 4ft balloons and 7ft balloons - these are the 4 footers
    Cluster Ballooning 0018.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist gets help from voluteers at Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0020.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin valley near Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0012.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0002.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist gets help from voluteers at Coalinga, California.
    scf4373-444_Cluster Ballooning 0022.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga, California.
    scf4373-434_Cluster Ballooning 0005.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin valley near Coalinga.  Cutting Balloons away to descend and dumping water from water containers by his side to rise Ninomiya can control his altitute and to an extent, his direction of travel.
    scf4373-425_Cluster Ballooning 0003.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to about 4200 feet above the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga, California.
    scf4327-254cluster ballooning 0013.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, uses a global positioning system to keep track of his speed direction of travel and a variometer for his rate of climb.
    scf4327-252cluster ballooning 0011.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga, California.
    scf4327-249cluster ballooning 0002.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga, California.
    scf4327-249_Cluster Ballooning 0002.jpg
  • Cluster balloonist, John Ninomiya's balloons are not all directly tied to Ninomiya's harness. He has devised a system of eight color-coded webbing straps of differing lengths that lead to caribiners connecting the twine. That way, the balloons are neatly arranged above him in tiers enabling a safe and certain release.
    Cluster Ballooning 0008.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist uses several hiking water bladders strapped on his side to control his rate of descent.
    Cluster Ballooning 0006.jpg
  • Unlike mountain climbing, cluster ballooning isn't strenuous, yet it's easy to get lightheaded in the clouds.
    Cluster Ballooning 0007.jpg
  • John Ninomiya empties ballast above the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga, California.  Cutting Balloons away to descend and dumping water from containers by his side to rise, he can control his altitute and his direction of travel.
    Cluster Ballooning 0004.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin valley near Coalinga, California site of the 37th annual Whamobass (Whiskey Hill, Atherton, Menlo Oaks Ballooning and Sporting Society, the longest continuously running ballooning festival in the world.  Cutting Balloons away to descend and dumping water from water containers by his side to rise Ninomiya can control his altitute and to an extent, his direction of travel.
    Cluster Ballooning 0001.jpg
  • "It's something I thought about as a kid,” says Ninomiya, a 42-year-old actuary. “One of the things kids think about is how could they personally fly.”
    Cluster Ballooning 0010.jpg
  • Cluster Balloonist John Ninomiya at Coalinga Ballooning festival.
    Cluster Ballooning 0033.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist gets help from voluteers at Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0017.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist gets help from voluteers at Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0023.jpg
  • Experimental balloonist Bob Nungester of Cupertino rises in his lawn chair near Coalinga, California.  Called "Cloud-hoppers" these single person aircraft can rise and fall more quickly than a traditional hot-air balloons.
    Cluster Ballooning 0028.jpg
  • Cluster Ballooner John Ninomiya drifts by a hot air balloon in Coalinga.
    Cluster Ballooning 0032.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist gets help from voluteers filling a bouquet of 4ft in diameter and 7ft in diameter balloons.
    scf4373-443_Cluster Ballooning 0021.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin valley near Coalinga, California.
    scf4373-434_cluster ballooning 0012.jpg
  • Balloons rise into the dawn at Coalinga, California ballooning festival.  Special jets of propane light up the interiors of the balloons to produce a dazzling effect.
    scf4327-255cluster ballooning 0027.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga, California.
    scf4327-251cluster ballooning 0005.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin valley near Coalinga.  Cutting Balloons away to descend and dumping water from water containers by his side to rise Ninomiya can control his altitute and to an extent, his direction of travel.
    Cluster Ballooning 0003.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to about 4200 feet above the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0013.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist gets help from voluteers at Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0022.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0005.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist gets help from voluteers filling a bouquet of 4ft in diameter and 7ft in diameter balloons.
    Cluster Ballooning 0021.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, uses a global positioning system to keep track of his speed direction of travel and a variometer for his rate of climb.
    Cluster Ballooning 0011.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist is attached to some 82 balloons using only
    Cluster Ballooning 0009.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist gets help from volunteers at Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0026.jpg
  • Cudjo Lewis arrived by slave ship in Mobile, Alabama in 1859 from Dahomey, Africa.  After the Civil War he and his shipmates founded Plateau, Alabama where he lived into his 90s.
    UndergroundRR 0039CudjoLewi.jpg
  • Slaves would follow the drinking gourd, the north star, across the Ohio River to Ripley, Ohio where Presbyterian minister John Rankin, one of the conductors on the Underground Railroad, would give them shelter.
    UndergroundRR 0035RankinHom.jpg
  • Card carrying member of the Seminole Indians Lance Cudjoe's relatives fled to Indian Territory in Oklahoma.
    UndergroundRR 0033 Seminole.jpg
  • The 20-year anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech that he gave in August of 1963 drew as many participants.  Demonstrators gathered as before by the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the march.
    UndergroundRR 0031 DCMarch.jpg
  • The Mason-Dixon line marker at the Maryland border near Cardiff was the line between the slave and free states.  The "P" Stood for Pennsylvania, a free state.
    UndergroundRR 0030MasonDixo.jpg
  • Seminole Negro Indian Scouts protected the Texas border from Comanche and Apache raiders.  The Buffalo Soldiers earned praise from the highest ranks.
    UndergroundRR 0028Buffaloso.jpg
  • Some black Seminole indians moved to Mexico in 1849-50 after learning that Indian Territory was not off limits to slave raiders.  Dan Factor, a black Seminole ranches near Nacimiento, Mexico.
    UndergroundRR 0029Seminoles.jpg
  • Copper slave tags identified a slave only by number when they were hired out in South Carolina.  Slaves without tags or identification papers were put in jail.
    UndergroundRR 0027SlaveTags.jpg
  • Sweet potatoe planting on Cassina Point Plantation on Edisto Island, South Carolina during Union occupation in April 8,1862.
    UndergroundRR 0026PlantingP.jpg
  • In Atlanta, Georgia a slave auction house advertises its business.
    UndergroundRR 0022 Auction.jpg
  • A detailed drawing of a slave ship 3 ft and 3 in high.
    UndergroundRR 0021SlaveShip.jpg
  • A detailed drawing of a slave ship.
    UndergroundRR 0019SlaveShip.jpg
  • With the help of a white friend, Samuel A. Smith, Henry Brown mailed himself to his family in Philadelphia and freedom.  He was dubbed Henry "Box" Brown.
    UndergroundRR 0017Box Brown.jpg
  • Slave inventory from Natchez, Mississippi in 1849.  First names were listed with values and age next to them.
    UndergroundRR 0014SlaveList.jpg
  • Considered derogatory by many blacks the hitching post, like this one was sometimes used to signal slaves that the coast was clear.  A lighted lantern or a bright cloth on the hitching post signal that all was clear.
    UndergroundRR 0012 Hitching.jpg
  • Considered derogatory by many blacks the hitching post, like this one was sometimes used to signal slaves that the coast was clear.  A lighted lantern or a bright cloth on the hitching post signal that all was clear.
    UndergroundRR 0011 Hitching.jpg
  • In the Wisconsin wilderness in 1844 five years after founding the town of Milton., Joseph Goodrich built a hexagonal inn and hand dug a tunnel from the inn's basement to a root cellar 40 ft away to hide slaves.  Guide is Kristin Henning.<br />
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In the Wisconsin wilderness in 1844 five years after founding the town of Milton., Joseph Goodrich built a hexagonal inn and hand dug a tunnel from the inn's basement to a root cellar 40 ft away to hide slaves.
    UndergroundRR 0008 Milton.jpg
  • Considered derogatory by many blacks the hitching post, like this one was sometimes used to signal slaves that the coast was clear.  A lighted lantern or a bright cloth on the hitching post signal that all was clear.
    UndergroundRR 0010 Hitching.jpg
  • In the Wisconsin wilderness in 1844 five years after founding the town of Milton., Joseph Goodrich built a hexagonal inn and hand dug a tunnel from the inn's basement to a root cellar 40 ft away to hide slaves.
    UndergroundRR 0007 Milton.jpg
  • Harriet Tubman portrait at her home in Auburn, New York.
    UndergroundRR 0002A Harriet.jpg
  • Crew holds on the Gondola of the Goodyear Blimp to keep it on the ground at Teterborough, New Jersey.
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  • Shadow of the Goodyear Blimp passes the bleachers of Giants Stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands.
    Goodyear Blimp 0004.jpg
  • Crew holds on the Gondola of the Goodyear Blimp to keep it on the ground at Teterborough, New Jersey.
    Goodyear Blimp 0003.jpg
  • Crew Member of the Goodyear Blimp climps a tower to untie it from the mooring.
    Goodyear Blimp 0002.jpg
  • Manufacturing of 747's in Everette, Washington
    scf4399-024_Boeing 0001 747 manufact...jpg
  • Shadow of the Goodyear Blimp passes the bleachers of Giants Stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands.
    scf4384-059_scf4399-160_Goodyear Bli...jpg
  • A barnstormer in a 1942 Stearman bi-plane performs an inside loop over Illinois farm land.
    scf4384-032_scf4399-153_Barnstormer ...jpg
  • Crew holds on the Gondola of the Goodyear Blimp to keep it on the ground at Teterborough, New Jersey.
    scf4356-124_Goodyear Blimp 0003.jpg
  • Backlit dove with blurred wings
    scf4356-003_Dove 0001.jpg
  • Phil Condit, chairman and CEO of The Boeing Company which employs close to 167,000 people and serves 145 countries.
    scf4327-423condit phil 0001 boeing.jpg
  • A plane is refurbished in Oklahoma.
    scf4374-081_scf4399-119_Airplane Rep...jpg
  • Founded in 1969 Kokoro Company created the first mechanical dinosaur models which are distributed throughout the world.  This Pterosaur is getting a mount to hang from a museum's ceiling.<br />
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A specimen about one foot across from China.
    Pterosaur 0001 Kokoro.jpg
  • Herb Kelleher, CEO of Southwest Airlines
    Kelleher Herb 0001.jpg
  • Civil War era mansion burned down before owners could move in.  Near Natchez, Mississippi I think.
    UndergroundRR 0041 Mansion.jpg
  • At the height of the Civil War Black's were urged to take up arms.  This poster was sponsored by black adolitionists in Philadelphia and eventually some 8000 were called into service.
    UndergroundRR 0040 CivilWar.jpg
  • Ten-room slave-built Greek Revival mansion sat on a 2,500-acre Louisiana sugarcane plantation.  The double stairway faces towards the Mississippi River which sometimes served as an escape route for slaves.
    UndergroundRR 0038Evergreen.jpg
  • "His soul is marching on" sang by Union soldiers which became the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." John Brown's grave lies near his farm in Lake Placid, New York.
    UndergroundRR 0037JBrownSta.jpg
  • "His soul is marching on" sang by Union soldiers which became the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." John Brown's grave lies near his farm in Lake Placid, New York.
    UndergroundRR 0036JBrownGra.jpg
  • Slaves had to construct two-family cypress cabins at a proper distance from there masters mansion at Evergreen Plantation near New Orleans.
    UndergroundRR 0023 Shacks.jpg
  • Slave Leg Blocks at Kingsley Plantation on Fort george Island in Florida now is a state historic site.  Family in leg irons is the Tillman family.
    UndergroundRR 0024 Restrain.jpg
  • Among the 2,000 slaves Levi Coffin assisted, William Bush, a  settler of Newport, reached Levi's house wearing wooden shoes.  William became a conductor for other runaway slaves.
    UndergroundRR 0018 W Bush.jpg
  • A detailed drawing of a slave ship.
    UndergroundRR 0020SlaveShip.jpg
  • Thomas Garrett of Wilmington, Delaware worked openly for 40 yrs  to shelter fugitives.
    UndergroundRR 0016TomGarret.jpg
  • Slave catching increased  with the use of reward posters.
    UndergroundRR 0015 Reward.jpg
  • Considered derogatory by many blacks the hitching post, like this one was sometimes used to signal slaves that the coast was clear.  A lighted lantern or a bright cloth on the hitching post signal that all was clear.
    UndergroundRR 0013 Hitching.jpg
  • In 1810 Reverend Alexander Dobbin  created sliding shelves at his Gettysburg, Pennsylvania home to hide several slaves in a crawl space.
    UndergroundRR 0005a Dobbin.jpg
  • In 1810 Reverend Alexander Dobbin  created sliding shelves at his Gettysburg, Pennsylvania home to hide several slaves in a crawl space.
    UndergroundRR 0005 Dobbin.jpg
  • Phil Condit, chairman and CEO of The Boeing Company which employs close to 167,000 people and serves 145 countries.
    Condit Phil 0002 Boeing.jpg
  • Harriet Tubman portrait at her home in Auburn, New York. Harriet bought this house for herself and her parents.  She served Union Troops as a spy, scout and nurse.
    UndergroundRR 0002 HarrietT.jpg
  • Crew Member of the Goodyear Blimp climps a tower to untie it from the mooring.
    scf4384-058.jpg
  • Crew holds on the Gondola of the Goodyear Blimp to keep it on the ground at Teterborough, New Jersey.
    Goodyear Blimp 0001.jpg
  • Crew holds on the Gondola of the Goodyear Blimp to keep it on the ground at Teterborough, New Jersey.
    scf4384-057_Goodyear Blimp 0001.jpg
  • Crew Member of the Goodyear Blimp climps a tower to untie it from the mooring.
    scf4384-058_Goodyear Blimp 0002.jpg
  • Phil Condit, chairman and CEO of The Boeing Company which employs close to 167,000 people and serves 145 countries.
    scf4327-423_Condit Phil 0001 Boeing.jpg
  • Airplane supply warehouse in Oklahoma.
    scf4356-056_Airplane Repair 0002.jpg
  • Herb Kelleher, CEO of Southwest Airlines<br />
Herb Kelleher, CEO of Southwest Airlines
    scf4327-514kelleher herb 0002.jpg
  • Herb Kelleher, CEO of Southwest Airlines<br />
Herb Kelleher, CEO of Southwest Airlines
    Kelleher Herb 0002.jpg
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