Category : 2017
Night is setting in and after 24 hours into the race, many teams have decided to land. We are monitoring everything closely from our Command Center at Stuttgart. At the moment, nine balloons remain in the air and will most likely fly until the morning. Our team USA-2 has landed safely near Haynau, Poland. Congrats [...]
After a looong day of preparations, the teams are finally airborne! It was a magnificent scenery on the airfield at Epagny when one gas balloon after the other ascended in the setting sun… and we were completely overwhelmed by the massive crowd of spectators who had come to see the launch! [...]
It is the oldest and most prestigious air race in the world: The Coupe Aéronautique de Gordon Bennett, founded by millionaire sportsman and owner of the New York Herald newspaper, James Gordon Bennett Jr., in 1906. The rules are simple: Fly the furthest distance from launch to landing point in a non-powered gas balloon. This [...]
It is a long tradition that we take part at the Landshut Balloon Meeting on the last weekend of August – 20 years ago, we were there for the first time with our model balloons! For the third year in a row, we had beautiful summer weather, so that the night glow on Friday and [...]
This past week has just been amazing. Our Facebook page now has over 600 fans… I almost can’t believe it! :-D Our posts and photos from the Mondial Air Balloons 2017 at Chambley have been seen by over 30.000 people. I never thought the passion we live could touch so many hearts. Thank you for [...]
For Saturday evening, we had the option to do a fly-in to Chambley airfield, and as it is usually windy on airfields, we decided to look for a nice sheltered spot to take off from. Which we found, actually, but the wind predictions given at the briefing proved to be anything but true, and so [...]