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Thursday offered some time to relax again, as both flights had to be cancelled, but on Friday morning, the weather was finally fine enough for the “Great Line”, the record attempt with the most balloons aligned on the airfield of Chambley. Although the sun was missing, views were overwhelming, and with 456 balloons total, we [...]
We didn’t really believe Wednesday morning to be flyable, so we decided to sleep in – which proved to be a failure, as the pilots launching from Chambley Air Base really had a nice morning flight! However, we were back in the skies in the evening, flying with 472 other balloons in a northeasterly direction [...]
After Monday had been completely unflyable, Tuesday evening provided another, yet exciting, weather slot. Big rain clouds trailed along east and west of Chambley airfield, giving the horizon a frightening look. Eventually, skies began to clear up from the northwest, and soon the heavy clouds were gone – time to fly! :-) Thank you Dennis [...]
Sunday evening gave us another chance to fly… and we almost didn’t take it! Winds were quite strong in the beginning, and unwilling to risk our little fragile basket, we aborted attempt one… but, as they say, the most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time, and so we finally [...]
On Saturday evening, the weather situation was quite similar to the morning… but with a cold front and some thunderstorms approaching, we closely monitored the radar pictures on the internet, and finally decided not to fly. For the teams who launched early and landed early, everything was fine, but some balloons stayed aloft quite long, [...]
The second flight on Saturday morning proved to be great fun again – although we were trying really hard to escape a rain cloud that had formed behind us! In the end, we landed on the same field with three other teams and managed to pack away our balloon right before it started to drizzle [...]
On Friday evening, it was the first official flight of the MONDIAL AIR BALLOONS 2017 at Chambley – and we were once more allowed to fly the UltraMagic Demonstrator balloon! :-) Two German guys in a Spanish balloon, flying the skies of France with our Danish friends Dorte and Bent as retrieve… it’s the international [...]
We finally got our internet connection working, so here’s the first update from Chambley! :-) After having properly set up our camp, we just couldn’t resist flying the first (unofficial) slot on Friday morning! For the Llado family from UltraMagic Balloons, Spain, we had taken along a Tekno 70 Demonstrator from Germany to France, and [...]
The biggest balloon meeting in Europe is on it’s way! After having arrived on Thursday afternoon, we already did three flights, two of them with an UltraMagic Tekno 70 Demonstrator – thank you very much to Neus Llado and Pascal Kreins for lending it to us! :-) More pictures will follow as soon as we [...]
It’s that time of year again! Within the following days, hundreds of balloonists will pilgrimage to the airfield of Chambley near Metz, France, to attend Europe’s biggest balloon meeting – and we’ll be with them, of course! :-) Follow us here or on our Facebook page for news from this unique event! [...]