Category : 2017
Throwback Thursday to one of our favourite weekends of the year! :-) The GermanCup 2017 at Pforzheim was such a wonderful event and we still love to look at all the pictures and recall many special memories. Samsony – Photography & Film has made a nice video we want to share with you today – [...]
The fabulous indian summer weather of the past days has just been perfect for ballooning – and so, I finally managed to do my examination flight for my gas balloon license. The sun was so hot that I even had to wear my scarf as a bandana! :-D After two hours and 35 minutes, we [...]
This weekend, we had a fabulous time with the Balloon Club of Augsburg: They had invited us to their gasballoon friendship flight, and after we had waited for quite some time for the morning mist to disappear, the crews enjoyed a wonderful flight over the autumn landscape towards the city of Nördlingen. [...]
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! [...]