2024 Pilot Bios



Flying Saucer

Tom Steinbock

Crestwood , KY

Sponsored by

Kittells and O’Shaughnessys


Years Flying Balloons - 33


When you are not flying, what do you enjoy doing?


Thinking about flying


Why did you become a pilot?


The travel. The people you meet


What do you find is the most challenging about flying a hot air balloon?


Finding crew


Short description of something interesting that ballooning has allowed you to do?


Travel - 38 states, 6 countries. And that the ballooning bug could bite anyone.


What do you most want the public to know/understand about hot air balloons and flying them?


That we are friendly come and meet us and we could alway use help