This evening, we had a very nice Opening Ceremony over the rooftops of Bern where the launch sequence was drawn. We will be launching as the ninth balloon! :-) [...]
After participating at the Whitsun Youth Camp of the Balloon Club of Stuttgart for 10 years as model balloonist, guitar player, retrieve and pilot, this year’s camp was Matthias’ first as the camp leader – and with 44 participants, two wonderful balloon flights, exciting visitors, interesting excursions and a lot of fun, the 42nd edition [...]
On May 17th, we had the honour to test-fly one of SCHROEDER fire balloons’ Mistral competition balloons! A wonderful two hour morning flight led us from Löchgau (north of Stuttgart) to Schellbronn (south of Pforzheim in the Black Forest) – and of course we did try out the ascending and descending capabilities of the little [...]
We’re slowly running out of superlatives to describe our magical flights here! This morning, we got up really early and met at the launch site at 6 o’clock for a sunrise flight. It’s hard to describe the atmospheric morning mood that awaited us at 2000 meters with no poet at hand… ;-) …and even the [...]
Tuesday morning brought yet another competition flight with a fly in to Kirchberg – and although we fought our way from Westendorf to Kirchberg for almost two hours, we didn’t quite make it to the target. Well, one can always say it was the winds… but the last picture clearly shows three reasons why the [...]