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After hosting three perfectly organised competitions during the past years, the Ballonsportgruppe Horb am Neckar e.V. held the German National Championship this summer – and as expected, the event didn’t disappoint! =) Perfect weather, delicious food, a wonderful closing ceremony and last but not least, nice task settings on all of the competition flights, made [...]
After being offline last Thursday (holidays are even nice when you’re living a life of ballooning), here we go with our next post celebrating one of the greatest editions of the International Balloon Youth Camp of all times! Taking place in Landshut with 30 participants from 9 nations (even Japan!), it was an amazing week [...]
Having placed our marker quite well at the first “hare and hounds”, we were already prepared for something, but we didn’t quite expect what happened at the prize giving: Not only did we win the competition, the prize was also a big surprise! So we will spend the next balloon meetings emptying a 4.5 liter [...]
Another tradition an Szczecinek is the “Splash Or Grab” for the last flight on Sunday evening: The balloon teams have to seek a launch point for themselves and fly towards the lake to grab a flag placed on a floating platform. This year, we missed it for more than 200 meters… but we enjoyed the [...]
Sunday morning offered another beautiful flight above Szczecinek… and another competition! However, as we had already used our only marker the day before (a special Szczecinek rule), it was mere training for us to catch up with the fox – but we made it nevertheless :-) Thank you Aeronautic Team for giving us a ride [...]
With our flight on Saturday evening, the day wasn’t done yet… the best was still to come! :-) Organisers Marlena, Ewa and Bartosz had created an amazing show with night glow and fireworks, full of lovely music and emotions. Thank you so much for these special moments! [...]
For the Saturday evening flight, winds finally were low enough to allow the first competition at Szczecinek. For the launch, we had bought some holi colours to shed from the basket… and the fox chase (or hare and hounds, as it is called officially) was quite successful… but more about that later ;-) Thanks again [...]