Allstar - Gordon Hall

Gordon has logged hundreds of hours flying competition, providing flight instruction for many students, and performing commercial flights through out most of the continental United States, and Alaska, where he resided for several years.

Gordon has also flown internationally in balloon competition and rallies in such places as Brazil, Mexico and France. Gordon has competed in and has successfully won many balloon competitions. He is a former State of Texas Champion and a former winner of The Great Reno Balloon Race. Gordon has worked with some of the major corporations and organizations like Baskin Robbins, Pizza Hut, and Justin Boots, while doing commercial promotions, which involved balloon free flights and tethers. He recently did balloon stunt work for Paramount Studios in the movie “Rat Race”. Gordon has helped organize and served as Balloonmeister for several balloon rallies. For over twenty-five years, he has represented one of the major balloon builders in the USA (The Balloon Works), as their Dealer for new balloons and accessories. He was one of the founding fathers and a Charter Board of Director Member of the Southern California Ballooning Association (SCBA) in the eighties. Gordon is still a member of the SCBA and also participates in the Northwest Ballooning Association (NBA) activities such as Safety Seminars. Since getting into ballooning, he has been a life long member of the national organization for ballooning, the Balloon Federation of America (BFA).

Gordon continues to actively participate in local and regional balloon safety seminars and continuing pilot education activities. His love for the sport continues to be evidence by the intensity of continual active involvement for over three decades. He says his most enjoyable ballooning flight was in Monument Valley, Arizona / Utah and his most harrowing flight was along the California coast near Morro Bay, California and his most sensational was a roof top landing on a high rise heliport in the downtown of a major city. Although, he is quick to admit that they are all enjoyable because no two flights are ever the same because of weather, location, track and of course, people. He recognizes that the practice of good safety habits help to enable balloonists to become old, long-time balloonist!