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Lynda Chanwai-Earle is taken on her first ever balloon ride at dawn over Methven, Christchurch.

Dawn - crew set-up semi inflated balloon

Dawn - balloon semi-inflated

Inside the belly of the whale

Dawn - propane burners drive hot air into balloon

Dawn - balloon inflating

Lift off!

Andrew Livingston from Early Morning Balloons, Hawkes Bay

Lynda becomes an aeronut

GPS tracking the flight

Martyn deliberately aims for a line of trees

Looking up

Lynda inside the balloon

Martyn Stacey, president of the Hot Air Ballooning Association

Sighting Mike Oakley's balloon at dawn

The view over methvan at dawn

Gathering 3400 cubic metres of balloon

A toast! Lynda becomes an aeronut!

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