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Often have adventurers like Richard Branson or Bertrand Piccard described ballooning as a wonderful metaphor of life. Facebook user Ciel D’opale, a French balloonist, has now published a touching poem, and we have translated it for you :-) One day, my child, you will be a pilot. Pilot of your life. Life is a [...]
Finding ourselves in this strange and surreal situation we’re all facing does have its good sides, too – you finally get to do all the stuff that’s been neglected for months ;-) So, here’s a little video from our Alpine Crossing we did half a year ago, on October 4th, from Germany to Italy, crossing [...]
So, here’s another one from last week… a beautiful morning flight in our lovely region. For the moment, we stay grounded, as it is not certain if authorities would appreciate us flying around during the lockdown. Nevertheless, there’s enough to do, while we keep enjoying the nice weather from the ground :-) [...]
From the ‘Kaiserwinkl’, we continued directly to Lake Tegernsee – the meeting there was celebrating its 20th anniversary, and as we had experienced most of its editions from the very beginnings to the really ‘big’ party events in 2004 and onwards, it was time to pay a visit again! ;-) And what can I say [...]
Directly from our stay at Filzmoos, we continued our winter mountain tour to Gosau, which is one of our most beloved places for model ballooning. Having flown our very first model balloon there back in 1995, we continued to visit the Austrian mountain village for many many years, until other meetings got more important. After [...]
It’s official! Our pilots Benedict Munz and Matthias Schlegel will be taking part in the 64th Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett which takes place end of August in Wroclaw, Poland. We are very happy to have achieved this success and want to thank all our supporters, especially all our members at the Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V., [...]
The first week of the Ballonfestival Tannheimer Tal is over – many many beautiful flights have been made! As we live quite nearby, we joined the balloon teams this Wednesday and had a fantastic flight from the Tannheimer Tal to our beautiful Allgäu with the Gitzenweiler Hof balloon :-) Thank you Rudi Höfer, Bianca Höfer [...]