{"id":5981,"date":"2016-07-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/konyukhov.dev2.binn-team.ru\/liftoff\/"},"modified":"2023-12-17T08:41:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T08:41:36","slug":"liftoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/konyukhov.ru\/en\/liftoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Liftoff!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/konyukhov.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/13668766_1100207336709670_6.jpg\" class=\"attachment-original size-original\"   alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The Russian Rozi\u00e8re hot-air balloon <i>Morton<\/i> completed a successful takeoff from Northam airport in Western Australia on 12 July, the point of liftoff being recorded as 7:30 am local time.<\/p>\n<p>This event is the culmination of two years of design and preparation, as well as shipping and assembling <i>Morton<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The balloon\u2019s take-off was preceded by twenty-four hours of tense work, from the assembly of the envelope to setting up all of the equipment at the airport. The team began extracting the envelope (what we\u2019d call the \u201cballoon\u201d part of the aircraft) from its container at 8:00 am on 11 July, and <i>Morton<\/i> was ready to go exactly one day later.<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/konyukhov.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG461_6.jpg\" class=\"attachment-original size-original\"   alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/konyukhov.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_20160711_153703_6.jpg\" class=\"attachment-original size-original\"   alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>U.K.-based Balloonist Don Cameron, the balloon\u2019s designer and manufacturer, and the man in charge of take-off, said everything proceeded perfectly. Overnight, the balloon\u2019s envelope was pumped with approximately ten thousand cubic metres of helium.<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/konyukhov.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/13640749_1106229889442037_6_o.jpg\" class=\"attachment-original size-original\"   alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Photo: <a class=\"_hli\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SkyworksWA\/\">SkyWorks WA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just before take-off, Pilot Fedor Konyukhov slightly heated the air in the envelope, and the balloon began to rise steadily at a speed of two metres per second. Fedor Konyukhov took-off with the maximum possible fuel reserve (propane) on board. All thirty-five gas cylinders were fitted around the gondola.<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/konyukhov.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMF7882_6.jpg\" class=\"attachment-original size-original\"   alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe significance of this event cannot be overstated,\u201d says Oleg Kolchenko, Vice-President of GK \u201cMorton\u201d, and company organiser and project investor. \u201cAn international team of more than one hundred unique specialisations, from Russia, Australia, England, and Belgium, have worked tirelessly for the flight to take place. We have come up against a vast amount of new information, but we worked together and made it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/konyukhov.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img6881_6.jpg\" class=\"attachment-original size-original\"   alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Escorting the balloon, the team and journalists from every major television channel ran to their respective helicopters and managed to chase down the rising aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The first, Australian, stage of the project has come to an end. Morton is in the sky. The team of technical specialists responsible for filling the envelope can return to the U.K. with a sense of fulfilment. The baton has now been taken up by the specialists at the Northam Flight Control Centre<\/p>\n<p>From this moment a ground team will begin following Morton\u2019s flight path, with the help of several satellites. We will know the coordinates of the balloon at any moment, as well as the balloon\u2019s altitude, course, speed, and even the temperature on board the gondola. The gondola\u2019s interior temperature will be relayed by the pilot.<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/konyukhov.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/13661946_6.jpg\" class=\"attachment-original size-original\"   alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>From the moment of takeoff, Fedor Konyukhov made three phone calls to the Northam Flight Control Centre, using the Iridium satellite service to make a report on his wellbeing. He said that he will be using an oxygen mask past 3,000 metres altitude (10,000 feet). It is cold in the gondola \u2013 seven degrees Celsius. He hasn\u2019t been using his heater during the day in an attempt to save fuel for heating at night, when the temperature on board will plummet to minus thirty degrees Celsius<\/p>\n<p>After the balloon reached its maximum altitude for the first day \u2013 22,000 feet, Fedor ran a check on the envelope\u2019s control system. It is currently 3:00pm in Australia, and in two hours the sun will set. Fedor Konyukhov is set to experience his first night as the sole pilot at an altitude of 6,500-7,000 metres. The ground team is doing its best to help the Pilot, but in the end every important action has to be performed by him, all we can do is observe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"justifyright\">Oscar Konyukhov<\/p>\n<p class=\"justifyright\">Northam, Australia<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See an interactive map of Fedor Konyukhov\u2019s route at <a href=\"https:\/\/my.yb.tl\/RRTW2016\/map-only\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">konyukhov.ru\/map <\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also view the route map at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iridium360.ru\/public\/ca5ea7a8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.iridium360.ru<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The official website for the project \u201cAround the world in a Roziere balloon \u201cMorton\u201d can be found at a <a href=\"http:\/\/flyfedor.ru\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flyfedor.ru<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/194813193873448\/photos\/?tab=album&amp;album_id=1159185057436252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Photo <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Rozi\u00e8re hot-air balloon Morton completed a successful takeoff from Northam airport in Western Australia on 12 July, the point of liftoff being recorded as 7:30 am local time. 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