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with Envy when you see this one
You’ll be
green
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his year balloonist Pat
Brouillet will also be
featuring a new balloon,
Envy. In past years
we’ve seen Brouillet in
the skies over Lincoln in his beautiful
Yellow Brick Road.
In April he purchased a new balloon,
manufactured just a few miles away
in Galena by Lindstrant, USA.
Brouillet said Yellow Brick Road is
still a part of the family, but as it has
aged a bit, it was time to bring some-
thing new into the mix.
“Yellow Brick Road is now over 20
years old,” Brouillet said. “We will
continue to fly it locally, but the fabric
has become too porous to carry more
than one passenger in the heat of the
summer. I enjoy flying as many pas-
sengers as I can.”
The new balloon, Envy, is a weave pat-
tern in shades of green.
“We were introduced to the ‘weave’
pattern in St. Louis last fall and in-
stantly fell in love with it. We added
our favorite colors and now we are
flying it.” Brouillet said, “My daugh-
ter’s choice (of name was) Green With
Envy. I simply shortened it to Envy.
The name leaves its meaning to the
imagination.”
Brouillet said that Envy is approxi-
mately the same size as Yellow Brick
Road but has a rounder shape
due to the manner in which it is
constructed.
Brouillet began flying in 1993,
and Yellow Brick Road was his
first balloon, purchased in 1999.
Since then he has logged over
350 hours in the air. This year
will be his seventh year as a pilot
in Lincoln, but he said that prior
to piloting, he served on balloon
crews at the festival all the way
back to 1993.
Brouillet was born in Kankakee
