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The Flying Kettle Project owes acknowledgements to an awful lot of people... In no particular order, heartfelt thanks to:
CORPORATE ENTITIES:
The 4th Feltham Scouts Group for a great deal of help and for the unstinting use of their facilities, without which much of our construction and experiments to date could not have been performed;
Albany International for donation of samples of their Primaloft PL1 product;
Gelvenor SA of South Africa for supply of their siliconized nylon fabric;
Kew Bridge Steam Museum for encouragement and advice;
Marc de Piolenc for several important prior art documents;
INDIVIDUALS:
Shizu Bito because she is gamman-tsuyoi, which means "good at putting up with things";
Mr. Brian Boland of Boland Balloons for a great deal of encouragement at the right juncture;
Philip Hopes for unending consultation and concrete help, with best wishes for his future;.
Bill and Erskine for a lot of metallic construction;
David Edwards for materials know-how, ingenious mechanical tweaking, and voluminous discussion;
Peter Rhodes of Lindstrand Balloons in England for encouragement and supply of used balloon fabric;
Peter Stokes for much background material and advice;
Terry Price for sewing up the first full-size Steam Balloon;
Professor Gabriel Khouri for giving me the chance to air my views in front of the most select audience imaginable;
Giles Camplin for his kindness in advising a tyro quite new to the field of practical ballooning;
Anthony Smith for words of wisdom from someone who has been there and done that;
David Scott, for the donation of a very heavy and valuable object, nearly a hundred years old;
Grzegorz Tokarczyk for a great deal of hard labour;
Yoichi Oshima for assistance with the intellectual property aspects;
and.....
William the boxer dog for his unceasing vigilance and protection!