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Your Corporate Balloon Team
Images Aloft provides your company with a turn-key operation. With an FAA licensed pilot and ground crew, plus support chase vehicle and all the gear necessary for a safe and successful promotion. We have four decades of experience, and many corporate references. Whenever possible we include your company guests and associates with flight preparation activities, further instilling a sense of pride and team building with your brand. Colorful branding of the chase vehicle and crew uniforms completes the package, instilling memorable, positive impressions to all who see it.
A Custom-Built Balloon
Images Aloft is an exclusive representative for CAMERON BALLOONS, with factories in Bristol, England and Ann Arbor Michigan. Cameron is the largest manufacturer of hot air balloons in the world. A custom corporate advertising balloon is built to FAA standards by skilled craftspeople, using digital inkjet printing techniques to faithfully reproduce any company logo. We equip our balloons with "rotation vents" that enable the pilot to effect a pirouette in mid air, and ensure the company logo is facing the crowd and the media at all times. For night-time operations, we employ a special interior lighting package that'll have your corporate logo glowing like a beacon to all who see it.
A Special Shape Balloon
If you can dream it, we can build it. No Corporate Icon is too complex. From flying bottles to castles in the clouds, CAMERON BALLOONS has built them all. Airborne mascots like the Energizer Bunny, Mr. Peanut, the Michelin Man, Tony the Tiger, Mickey Mouse and Mr. Potato Head have taken flight as hot air balloons. Today's balloons are built of the most modern materials like Kevlar, titanium, and special-weave nylon, all to the most exacting FAA specifications.
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Your Logo - Our Balloons
Images Aloft has "generic" balloons specially designed for temporary logos. The artwork is reproduced on a nylon banner blank and attached to one of our colorful balloons with Velcro, producing a seamless effect that looks like your own custom-built balloon without the cost and commitment. You may rent our balloons for one flight or many. And we will provide everything you need for your image to take flight.
Tethered Rides
Images Aloft pilots have flown corporate balloons at hundreds of events worldwide. From the Super Bowl to the US Open, we've been there providing our clients with the maximum exposure. When a free-flight is impractical we can tether your balloon with long ropes, allowing for short flights with multiple passengers. Sometimes a static display is in order, and the balloon provides a colorful backdrop for a concert or sporting event. An average size balloon can accommodate two passengers plus your pilot, and we often invite media representatives along for the ride, for a TV news story or a live radio remote. New technology will allow us to digitally project digital video on a static balloon at night, for a larger than life dynamic display platform.
Balloon Glows & Displays
The image of your hot air balloon at night provides a captivating sight. The powerful burner illuminates the balloon like a seven-story lantern. Balloon glow-events are popular with spectators, who turn up by the thousands to ooh & aah at the spectacle. Images Aloft has perfected a custom internal 3000 watt lighting system to further enhance the effect.
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The News Media Loves Balloons!
Hot air balloons provide the news media with colorful and exciting images that viewers remember. At Image Aloft we've had professional media training, and we're experts at keeping the spotlight on our clients. Building the brand is our Job #1!
Join Our Crew
Ballooning is a team-activity, and it requires a dedicated crew to get off the ground! A balloon crew assists with rigging, inflation, launch, and pack-up. Driving the chase van is always fun and challenging, plotting the right course to find where the balloon will land. Many of our crew people are volunteers, 'eager to get some hands-on experience in this exciting activity. It's a great way to meet new friends and share new adventures. We're always looking for new candidates, and you may even earn a free balloon ride!
Our Ballooning Family
Ballooning entrepreneurs Kathy & Jerry Copas have been in the hot air business together 40 years. Their son Spencer, also a balloon pilot, rounds out the "flying family". They have flown and or managed hot air balloon advertising programs for a variety of companies like Jack Daniels, Michelin, Caesar's Palace, French Lick Resort, Domino's Pizza and Early Times Whisky. They take their roles as "corporate ambassadors" very seriously, promoting companies they represent with a positive, professional attitude. All have exemplary safety records, having trained many new pilots over the years. Their ballooning careers have taken them all over the world, and to most of the U.S.A., operating balloons in such varied locations as The Australian Outback, the Swiss Alps, and the Arabian Desert. They have had professional media training with Edelman's Worldwide, and are adept at positive product promotion through print, radio, and television coverage.
Exclusive Dealer
CAMERON BALLOONS First Around the World
Images Aloft is an exclusive representative for CAMERON BALLOONS, with factories in Bristol, England and Ann Arbor Michigan. Cameron is the largest manufacturer of hot air balloons in the world. A custom corporate advertising balloon is built to FAA standards by skilled craftspeople, using digital inkjet printing techniques to faithfully reproduce any company logo. The engineers at Cameron have perfected the art of building "special shape" balloons, launching such airborne masterpieces as Darth Vader, Mickey Mouse, a tyrannosaurus-Rex, and a 100ft. dairy cow. Cameron-built balloons have reached the highest levels of the atmosphere, and circumnavigated the Earth three separate times...the first around the world!
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