Where has the time gone? Already eight years ago, Tomas Hora invited some second generation pilots to the town of Kajov in Czech Republic for a nice little balloon event – and it was one of the most beautiful and adventurous meetings we’ve ever been to! Not only did we do four balloon flights, we [...]

On the first weekend of June, the Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V. hosted their annual Youth Camp at Seeg / Allgäu. We spent three wonderful days exploring the countryside, visiting a swimming pool, singing ’round the campfire and of course flying our balloons! :-) The weather situation was quite difficult due to lability, rain showers and thunderstorms, [...]

Fantastic flight at Eglofs this morning with the three new Kubicek balloons from Bauernkäserei Leupolz, Volksbank Allgäu-Oberschwaben and Gitzenweiler Hof. Thank you Ballonfreunde Allgäu e.V. for the invitation! :-)   [...]

It was a wonderful weekend at Zwickau! =) The city had invited fifteen balloon teams and twelve model balloon teams to celebrate its 900th anniversary – and celebrate we did ;-) Three night glows, a lot of model balloon action and a wonderful morning flight made this gathering really enjoyable. Weather was nice and warm, [...]

… was the definite highlight of our weekend at Chemnitz! :-) When the launch of the hot air balloons on Saturday evening was cancelled due to too gusty conditions, the 2014 gas balloon world champions Wilhelm Eimers and Matthias Zenge decided to inflate their netless gas balloon for an evening hop, and I was lucky [...]

Lovely flight this morning in the skies above our beautiful village in a Kubicek BB20XR eXtreme Racer, together in the basket with former Kubicek wicker master Nelson from Colombia! Awesome fun =)   [...]

It was a most exciting Saturday at Stuttgart! Not only the weather situation was a bit of a gamble, but also the planned highlight of the day: Skydive world champion Klaus Renz jumping from one of our balloons and landing again on our launchsite just next to the Cannstatter Wasen! In the event, everything worked [...]

And here are some nice ones from last Sunday! We did a wonderful morning flight with our 840m² gas balloon from the Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V., taking off at 4 o’clock from our launch site at the Cannstatter Wasen and flying in a north-northwesterly direction. Tracking by SPOT Gen2 by WeSPOT GbR – thanks guys ;-) [...]

Last Thursday, I went to the hairdresser’s in my new hometown. We got into talking about my hobby and the girl said that she’d probably never fly in a balloon, as she was too afraid about it. But some time ago, a balloon had almost landed in her garden, touching down on a field next [...]