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The past weekend we spent at Horb (south of Stuttgart) at the 3rd Neckar-Balloncup! With many strong international participants present, it was a good chance to train for upcoming championships – and very enjoyable, too, as the organisation by the local balloon club was just perfect! :-) In the end, we found ourselves on rank [...]
For the last flight at the Szczecinek Balloon Festival, the teams were given a special challenge: The competition director placed a flagpole on a floating platform on the lake which had to be grabbed from the balloon! Although the teams tried really hard, noone could quite make it, and so we just enjoyed the second [...]
Our fourth flight on Sunday morning probably marked the most sensational one at Szczecinek – with one hour 15 minutes in the air and a distance of 33 km covered, we surely saw a lot of the nice Polish countryside in the west of the town. For retrieve, we received great help from Angelika and [...]
The Szczecinek Balloon Festival is so enjoyable that we’re seriously lagging behind with uploading our photos – so here’s the bunch from flight three on Saturday evening! The big plant with the enormous cloud of smoke you can see in the pictures is KRONOSPAN, Szczecinek’s biggest employer, as well as one of the main sponsors [...]
Friday evening was our second flight over Poland and the first official flight of the Szczecinek Balloon Festival! Many many spectators had come to watch the launch from OSiR Sports Park, and the balloonists enjoyed a wonderful flight over the lake and the surroundings of the town towards the setting sun. For retrieve we owe [...]
We have arrived safely at the Szczecinek Balloon Festival at Poland – and already did the first (pre-)flight yesterday evening! And it was not only our first flight over Poland, but also PIC-flight no. 400 for Matthias, which had of course to be celebrated with a nice bottle of champagne after landing! :-) [...]
Our desert adventures in Tunisia are the cover story of this month’s “BallonSport-Magazin” of the German Ballooning Federation, and thanks to president Marita Krafczyk we are allowed to publish it here! :-) You can watch the screenshots in the gallery below, or download the entire article as PDF here. [...]
The weekend of 24th/25th of June we spent at the Balloon Meeting at Königsbrunn (also near Augsburg) with a lot of good friends. Weather allowed two nice flights in easterly directions, and the hospitality of the ‘Ballonfreunde Lechfeld e.V.’ was just perfect. Thank you guys for the good times! ;-) [...]