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! ;-) [...]
Last weekend, during the youth camp of the Balloon Club of Stuttgart in Lützelburg, we had the chance to fly over yet another city: Augsburg! ;-) The medieval town center with its many churches and the historic city hall was a great sight for the camp participants in the four hot air balloons. With a [...]
The last weekend we spent at the 2nd Franconian Paraballooning in Oberhausen near Würzburg, and it was really great fun! Challenging competition tasks made our flights really adventurous, while we had to drop our parachutist David during each flight, some of them being more successful, others less ;-) But after three flights, twelve competition tasks [...]
What do you do when you love ballooning so much that you are slightly disappointed every time you have to go back down to earth? The answer for us is: Fly longer! ;-) And now that at least one of us has got his gas balloon license, of course we want to try how far [...]
…we had quite an awesome youth camp with the Balloon Club of Stuttgart and three wonderful balloon flights! This year, the camp will take place from June 15th to 18th at the very same place, so if you’re looking for three days of fun, flying and singing ’round the campfire, be sure to join us! [...]
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.