Category : 2025
Patience was required at this year’s edition of the Ballonfestival Bonn! Challenging weather conditions made the organisation cancel flight by flight, while we were exploring the surroundings of Germany’s former federal capital – an interesting activity, as it was indeed our first visit there! Finally, on Monday morning, weather allowed a first flight – the [...]
Our ballooning friend Tomas is moving from Prague to Sweden this summer and wanted to say goodbye to the Czech ballooning community… a welcome opportunity for a nice flight (and party) at the little airfield of Kejžlice! Thank you Tomas and everyone involved for the lovely weekend =) [...]
Since our first Gordon Bennett Race in 2018, we were dreaming of having our own gas balloon basket that would combine all our requirements for comfortable long-time travel – while, at the same time, being as lightweight as possible. After months of planning, with the support of dedicated club members of the Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V., [...]
Oh how lucky we are! In the beautiful region of the Emmental in Switzerland, we enjoyed a lovely balloon meeting with seven flights in four days and perfect hospitality – feels like a long time we did seven flights in a row! =) Huge thanks to the Ballonclub Emmental and Blaser Ballooning for an event [...]
For the first time, the BWLV (aviation association of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg) held its own balloon competition – but with a twist! The event was targeted to competition beginners with less complex tasks, so the competition experts that attended the event took over the role of mentors and were each put in groups [...]
The gas balloon winter competition of the Freiballonclub Salzach-Inn is a one-day event that is only held in good weather. For that reason, it had been cancelled many times in the years before, but 2025, we were finally lucky! :-) Balloons were inflated from Friday morning, so that all 11 gas balloons were ready Saturday [...]
