The takeoff certainly is one of the most intense memories of our whole Gordon Bennett experience. Dozens of people standing around our basket, asking curious questions, while we are going through our checklists. Then, another security check by the deputy event director. Releasing the balloon from its tethers and being guided to the podium. Last [...]

Inflation day! And as always, it paid off doing everything early. We were the first team having their equipment ready for hydrogen, so we had enough time for the official briefings, for our own briefings by our amazing meteo man Tomas Hora, and even for a funny interview with Regan Tetlow! :-D However, there were [...]

We have arrived safely in Bern yesterday and already filled the first half of our sandbags. After a nice evening in town, the second half of bags followed this morning. Now we are waiting for the General Briefing at 13.30 local time.   [...]

Past weekend, we met at the balloon depot of the Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V. to inspect our gas balloon envelope and to prepare our basket and all the other gear we need for the Gordon Bennett launch, set for this Friday in Bern, Switzerland. On Wednesday morning, we will leave Stuttgart. Fingers crossed for good weather! [...]

The preparations for the Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race, launching in Bern/Switzerland from the 28th of September, have begun! Today, we’ve already been featured in the local newspaper – click here to have a look! ;-) [...]

The last week we spent at the 4th FAI Junior World Hot Air Balloon Championship in Wloclawek, Poland, together with 48 other young balloon teams from all over the world! :-) Weather was just perfect in the beginning, allowing some wonderful training flights… at the event itself, however, only half of the scheduled flights could [...]

What an incredibly great event! Five out of five flights, night glow, fireworks, three gas balloons and a wonderful gala dinner. The Vredefeesten 2018 definitely is the best Sint-Niklaas weekend we’ve ever had. THANK YOU everyone involved! =)   [...]

Just one week later, we did another flight north of Pforzheim together with my wonderful parents… and it was indeed a lovely morning between Bretten and the Neckar valley! Can there be a better way to start a Sunday? ;-)   [...]