ALTUS, Okla. (KSWO) - The Altus Balloon and Kite Festival takes place Saturday and Sunday at Quartz Mountain Airport north of ...

To Albuquerque now, where under a desert sky, hundreds of pilots ready themselves to be lighter than air. At dawn, they'll lift off in hot air balloons, painting the October sky in a wash of color.

ALBUQUERQUE — The realization that Saturday morning's winds would prove too much for hot air balloon flight came slowly at first, then all at once. What began as anxious rumblings at dawn among the ...