The German Ballooning Federation DFSV has published the results of the 2017 Qualification and thereby officially confirmed us to take part in the 2018 Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race as Team Germany 3! Bern here we come! :-) Huge thanks to the Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V. – without all your help, we would never [...]
Although the sun didn’t really want to shine, we had great fun last Sunday launching two of our Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V. club balloons at the CMT Holiday Exhibition. Thank you Stuttgart Airport and DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung for a perfect ATC! ;-) #CMT18 [...]
Past weekend, we visited the Allgäulino Montgolfiade at Wertach – and though the weather forecast had been not very promising, we enjoyed two nice flights over the beautiful Allgäu. Some balloons almost reached the city of Munich on Saturday! A big THANK YOU to the town of Wertach, to Allgäulino, Bavaria Ballonfahrten and Kubicek Balloons [...]
For some weeks already, we had the vision in our mind to finish the year with yet another long gas balloon flight… and for the day after Christmas, the weather looked promising for a flight from Stuttgart to Lithuania. As Kaliningrad and Belarus do not allow balloons to enter their airspace, the challenge was to [...]
It’s a tradition for more than 50 years already: Every December, the Sunday after St. Nicholas’ Day at Sonthofen in the beautiful Allgäu, Bishop Nicholas himself gathers all the children’s wish lists and climbs a balloon to take the letters to the Christkind in the heavens, who will then prepare the gifts for Christmas. We [...]
This year has been full of epic flights… but we’re not done yet! ;-) Thursday, December 7th was a perfect opportunity for yet another outstanding flight – beautiful weather and strong winds blowing alongside the Alps. So we met with Thomas from Kubicek Balloons Deutschland, loaded a lightweight 2600m³ ballon with five big cylinders and [...]
It was an awesome view last Saturday! Once a year, our Balloon Club of Stuttgart arranges an event exclusively for its members to fly all their hot air balloons together (after a decent brunch, that is). Thank you to our members Birgit, Helmut and Gerhard for organising this wonderful day! :-) [...]
It was on the 21st of November, 1783, when Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François d’Arlandes first boarded one of the Montgolfier Brothers’ famous flying machines. The balloon “Reveillon” took off from the garden of Château La Muette near Paris, covering the distance of about 10 kilometers in 25 minutes and landing near the town [...]
The passion of a lifetime: To behold the stunning beauty of our world like no one else, free like a bird, high in the sky, yet one with nature, using the oldest principle of flight known to man: Lighter than air.
No wings, no noise, no pressure… just serenity, just perfect bliss. At one with the elements… at one with yourself.
This is why we live A LIFE OF BALLOONING.