On Friday evening, it was the first official flight of the MONDIAL AIR BALLOONS 2017 at Chambley – and we were once more allowed to fly the UltraMagic Demonstrator balloon! :-) Two German guys in a Spanish balloon, flying the skies of France with our Danish friends Dorte and Bent as retrieve… it’s the international [...]
We finally got our internet connection working, so here’s the first update from Chambley! :-) After having properly set up our camp, we just couldn’t resist flying the first (unofficial) slot on Friday morning! For the Llado family from UltraMagic Balloons, Spain, we had taken along a Tekno 70 Demonstrator from Germany to France, and [...]
The biggest balloon meeting in Europe is on it’s way! After having arrived on Thursday afternoon, we already did three flights, two of them with an UltraMagic Tekno 70 Demonstrator – thank you very much to Neus Llado and Pascal Kreins for lending it to us! :-) More pictures will follow as soon as we [...]
It’s that time of year again! Within the following days, hundreds of balloonists will pilgrimage to the airfield of Chambley near Metz, France, to attend Europe’s biggest balloon meeting – and we’ll be with them, of course! :-) Follow us here or on our Facebook page for news from this unique event! [...]
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 [...]
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.