For the last weekend of August, we were again allowed to borrow the 2000m³ BB20E from Kubicek Balloons Deutschland to visit the Ballontage Toggenburg at Ebnat-Kappel, Switzerland. A beautiful region to fly in, for sure! Competitionwise, winds and luck were on our side, and eventually we ended up in first place – although the true [...]

Just the weekend after, we were at Weilburg with Kubicek Balloons Deutschland for the 450th edition of the local church anniversary. What a lovely little balloon meet! Thank you everyone at BSC Nümbrecht and Stadt Weilburg for the great hospitality and of course to Thomas Köck for the fabulous balloon!   [...]

In mid August, we joined Team Wera for the Summer Breeze Festival at Dinkelsbühl to fly the Wera Screw Driver special shape balloon over the heavy metal music festival. And although the band lineup might not be everyone’s cup of tea, we had great fun! :-) Thank you Siebel Ballooning for the invitation and thank [...]

The year is 2019 A.D.. The ballooning world is entirely travelling to Chambley. Well, not entirely… one small group of indomitable people still holds out against the mass. And life is indeed easy for the 66 balloon teams in the heart of the Umbrian countryside… ;-) After ten days in Italy, we can say that [...]

Past weekend, we visited the Friendship Balloon Meet of the Ballonsportclub Hellenstein e.V. at Heidenheim. Weather allowed one flight, however, the aerial meeting with the glider plane club Fliegergruppe Giengen e.V. at sunrise made this morning a true highlight! :-) Many thanks to all the club members at Heidenheim for the excellent hospitality and catering! [...]

We’ve just returned home from some relaxed days of ballooning at the Gitzenweiler Hof camping site! Despite weather wasn’t quite with us on Friday and Saturday, we had some pretty good flights and a nice glow yesterday evening :-)   [...]

For some years already, we’ve been looking forward to visit the balloon meeting at Kiel, which takes place during the famous Kieler Woche, one of the biggest sailing ship events worldwide. And this year, we teamed up with Kubicek Balloons Germany and turned that dream into reality! =) We couldn’t have chosen a better year. [...]

Just as the year before, the destination of the annual Youth Camp of the Balloon Club of Stuttgart was once more the little town of Seeg, Allgäu. The weather forecast was even worse than in 2018, but again, we managed to carry out two flights, one swimming pool visit, and spent nice evenings singing around [...]

Every year in May, the Balloon Club of Augsburg holds a gas balloon meeting with about ten balloons, following a long tradition of gas ballooning in the towns of Gersthofen and Augsburg. In 1931, Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard and his engineer Paul Kipfer launched there to be the first men in the stratosphere – in [...]

About last weekend… flight two of two! :-) Sunday evening brought another chance for flying, after it had finally cleared up during the afternoon. Fabulous hop alongside the Gitzenweiler Hof Balloon from Seeg to Lechbruck.   [...]