237 years ago on November 21st, the famous Montgolfier Brothers sent the first men into the sky in one of their hot air balloons – the dawning of manned aviation. Our lives would be no doubt very different if it wasn’t for these brave guys! What better to celebrate this day in the air? The [...]

A fantastic weekend lies behind us! The beautiful weather on Saturday was perfect for a long flight along the Alps with enough time to play around. One balloon, two pilots and a lot of fun! And with every flight, I’m finding it harder to complain about 2020… ;-) [...]

Two more fantastic flights were possible last week, with fresh snow in the mountains, colourful forests and amazing light providing an almost unreal scenery. You can clearly feel that winter is coming! [...]

Wonderful Saturday with two flights last weekend. Enjoying the most colourful season of the year with friends in the air :-) [...]

Almost directly after our Alpine Crossing, we spent a nice weekend at Stubenberg with Flaggl Ballooning! Two flights, one on Saturday morning, one in the afternoon, with different directions and weather – Steiermark at it’s very best =) [...]

Fantastic first Alpine Crossing of the season this Thursday! We took off at Füssen at 7 in the morning and gently landed north of Treviso 4 hours later. Wonderful views… the majestic mountains never fail to show us how small and insignificant we are. Hopefully, the governments will allow more of these crossings this winter! [...]

It was a rather unexpected message: On Wednesday afternoon, September 16th, Ben sent a trajectory screenshot to our group chat, suggesting a gas balloon duration flight over the weekend. Takeoff would be just two days later, on Friday evening, from our launch site at Stuttgart. We started monitoring the weather. Would it be possible to [...]

After a break of two days, weather was flyable again on Thursday evening at the Kieler Woche – our fourth flight there! The fifth and last flight followed on Friday evening, leading us over the Cheshire Cat, a giant maize maze near Sieversdorf south of Kiel. On Sunday, we embarked on our way back home, [...]

It was indeed a sad moment when we learnt earlier this year that the Kieler Woche would be postponed to September and the Balloon Sail would be cancelled. But as the city of Kiel just couldn’t imagine their sailing event without balloons, we followed the invitation of the Ballonteam Ostsee and are now enjoying the [...]

With the summer slowly leaving, our most beautiful time of the year begins: In autumn, the thermals are not that strong any more, and we can fly all day again. The first flight of this kind took place just this week, 9:30 hours from Stuttgart to Pfaffenhofen/Ilm in our new “Stuttgarter Hofbräu” gas balloon. Oh [...]