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It’s a little town well known among balloonists: Annonay in the Département of Ardèche, France, where the brothers Joseph and Etienne de Montgolfier discovered the lighter-than-air principle back in 1783. And as it lies close to our route to Marseille, we decided to have a stopover on our long way to Tunisia. The statue of [...]
On February 15th, we managed an amazing flight over the Alps to Italy with two balloons! :-) Taking off at Bad Feilnbach near Rosenheim, we soon hit the speedy winds in FL170 and enjoyed a magnificent colourful morning sky. We had a terrific view of the Dolomites with the rising sun in our back, while [...]
…with freelance journalist Adelheid Wanninger! The passionate traveller was with us for one of our flights at the Kaiserwinkl Alpin Ballooning and has now published her photos and a nicely written report on her website www.lastsecrets.de. Definitely worth a read! :-) [...]
Last week, we had two fabulous days at the Kaiserwinkl Alpin Ballooning event at Kössen, Austria – this nicely organised balloon meeting is just worth a visit every year! :-) Two wonderful flights – one aboard my own ballon, one alongside it in one of the Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V. – the famous ‘outdoor evening’ and [...]
The German Ballooning Federation DFSV has published the results of the 2017 Qualification and thereby officially confirmed us to take part in the 2018 Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race as Team Germany 3! Bern here we come! :-) Huge thanks to the Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V. – without all your help, we would never [...]
Although the sun didn’t really want to shine, we had great fun last Sunday launching two of our Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V. club balloons at the CMT Holiday Exhibition. Thank you Stuttgart Airport and DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung for a perfect ATC! ;-) #CMT18 [...]
Past weekend, we visited the Allgäulino Montgolfiade at Wertach – and though the weather forecast had been not very promising, we enjoyed two nice flights over the beautiful Allgäu. Some balloons almost reached the city of Munich on Saturday! A big THANK YOU to the town of Wertach, to Allgäulino, Bavaria Ballonfahrten and Kubicek Balloons [...]
For some weeks already, we had the vision in our mind to finish the year with yet another long gas balloon flight… and for the day after Christmas, the weather looked promising for a flight from Stuttgart to Lithuania. As Kaliningrad and Belarus do not allow balloons to enter their airspace, the challenge was to [...]