The GermanCup 2017 is on! :-) Almost all teams have arrived and already had a nice welcome evening at the ‘Gasometer’ at Pforzheim. For the first flight on Friday morning, our story will be featured in the local newspaper of Pforzheim – and you can already read it online here! ;-) [...]
Only four more days to go until the 11th International GermanCup at my hometown Pforzheim, the very event I saw a hot air balloon for the first time in my life, 31 years ago. And oh how much has changed since then! :-) Thank you Wolfgang Trautz and GT Ballonfahrten for not giving up and [...]
The Gordon Bennett Race 2017 is over! All teams are safely on the ground. The last two hours have been a nervewrecking thriller, first trying to keep ESP-1 on track to the gate to Lithuania, then aborting the flight due to thunderstorm activity in the area and getting them down safely. What an incredible adventure! [...]
Night is setting in and after 24 hours into the race, many teams have decided to land. We are monitoring everything closely from our Command Center at Stuttgart. At the moment, nine balloons remain in the air and will most likely fly until the morning. Our team USA-2 has landed safely near Haynau, Poland. Congrats [...]
After a looong day of preparations, the teams are finally airborne! It was a magnificent scenery on the airfield at Epagny when one gas balloon after the other ascended in the setting sun… and we were completely overwhelmed by the massive crowd of spectators who had come to see the launch! [...]
It is the oldest and most prestigious air race in the world: The Coupe Aéronautique de Gordon Bennett, founded by millionaire sportsman and owner of the New York Herald newspaper, James Gordon Bennett Jr., in 1906. The rules are simple: Fly the furthest distance from launch to landing point in a non-powered gas balloon. This [...]
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