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? ;-)   [...]

On the way home from the Moselballonfiesta, we took a stop at Speyer to have yet another flight with Felix Walde and Thomas Laux – thanks guys for this nice opportunity, thank you Tobias Scheidl for some of the photos and Fred Bernhardt for retrieving! :-)   [...]

It was a longtime dream of us to take part at the Moselballonfiesta, hosted by SCHROEDER fire balloons, one of the biggest balloon meetings in Germany – and this year, we actually made it! :-) And we couldn’t have taken a better year – all scheduled flights could take place, every flight was different, and [...]

The 18th edition of the famous International Youth Camp was held in Burgkirchen on the site of the Freiballonclub Salzach-Inn e.V. – and after a pause of three years, I joined the camp again for some days to support the crews and fly one of the gas balloons. 35 participants from 10 countries in the [...]

Historic balloon sighting reported in Oxfordshire, Great Britain! Obviously, this is the next balloon movie coming up, starring Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne as balloon pioneer Henry Coxwell and scientist James Glaisher (they obviously got the sexes mixed up on the first one!). ;-) In September 1862, Coxwell and Glaisher set an altitude record when [...]

The Gordon Bennett Race for gas balloons is the oldest air race in the world. Held since 1906, it was then founded by newspaper proprietor James Gordon Bennett Junior. The rules are simple: Participation is open to hydrogen balloons with a volume of up to 1050 cubic meters (36750 cu ft), each country can send [...]