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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 :-) [...]
Where has the time gone? Already eight years ago, Tomas Hora invited some second generation pilots to the town of Kajov in Czech Republic for a nice little balloon event – and it was one of the most beautiful and adventurous meetings we’ve ever been to! Not only did we do four balloon flights, we [...]
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, [...]
… was the definite highlight of our weekend at Chemnitz! :-) When the launch of the hot air balloons on Saturday evening was cancelled due to too gusty conditions, the 2014 gas balloon world champions Wilhelm Eimers and Matthias Zenge decided to inflate their netless gas balloon for an evening hop, and I was lucky [...]
It was a most exciting Saturday at Stuttgart! Not only the weather situation was a bit of a gamble, but also the planned highlight of the day: Skydive world champion Klaus Renz jumping from one of our balloons and landing again on our launchsite just next to the Cannstatter Wasen! In the event, everything worked [...]
And here are some nice ones from last Sunday! We did a wonderful morning flight with our 840m² gas balloon from the Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V., taking off at 4 o’clock from our launch site at the Cannstatter Wasen and flying in a north-northwesterly direction. Tracking by SPOT Gen2 by WeSPOT GbR – thanks guys ;-) [...]