Category : 2018
It is always a great moment when dreams come true. For the VILSA-BRUNNEN mineral water company, this happened just a couple of days ago in the lovely surroundings of our home town: The first flight of their brand new hot air balloon special shape, brought to life by Kubicek Balloons Deutschland and made at Kubicek [...]
Every year in winter, Lake Forggensee turns to a moonlike landscape when the water is released to make space for the springtime snowmelt. This summer, however, the basin remains empty: Severe damage to the barrage has been detected and needs urgent repair. For us, the empty lake brings an extraordinary scenery that can be observed [...]
A very enjoyable night flight from Stuttgart last week was a welcome opportunity to test some of our Gordon Bennett Equipment as well! Everything worked as planned, including the perfect landing after 11 hours close to Germersheim, Rhineland-Palatinate. Good times :-) [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]