Last weekend, we visited the balloon maintenance training seminar at the German hot air balloon manufacturer SCHROEDER fire balloons. Apart from legal regulations, we learnt a lot about servicing burners and cylinders and doing small envelope and basket repairs. Thank you to Werner Wäschenbach and the employees of SCHROEDER fire balloons for these two interesting [...]
With the current weather in Germany, we can do nothing but remember the wonderful summer! ;-) In the September issue of the BWLV magazine “adler”, our photos from the Mondial Air Ballons 2017 were featured in a report about Europe’s biggest balloon event. Thank you Simone Bürkle for allowing us to republish it! [...]
This Monday evening, we took off from the gas balloon launch site at Düsseldorf-Eller for another hydrogen training flight! Cruising through the evening on a low inversion layer, we hit Frankfurt right at it’s center, having an awesome view of the airport that had just closed for the night. Flying further, we passed the Odenwald, [...]
Throwback Thursday to one of our favourite weekends of the year! :-) The GermanCup 2017 at Pforzheim was such a wonderful event and we still love to look at all the pictures and recall many special memories. Samsony – Photography & Film has made a nice video we want to share with you today – [...]
The fabulous indian summer weather of the past days has just been perfect for ballooning – and so, I finally managed to do my examination flight for my gas balloon license. The sun was so hot that I even had to wear my scarf as a bandana! :-D After two hours and 35 minutes, we [...]
This weekend, we had a fabulous time with the Balloon Club of Augsburg: They had invited us to their gasballoon friendship flight, and after we had waited for quite some time for the morning mist to disappear, the crews enjoyed a wonderful flight over the autumn landscape towards the city of Nördlingen. [...]
The GermanCup 2017 is on! :-) Almost all teams have arrived and already had a nice welcome evening at the ‘Gasometer’ at Pforzheim. For the first flight on Friday morning, our story will be featured in the local newspaper of Pforzheim – and you can already read it online here! ;-) [...]
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.