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…with freelance journalist Adelheid Wanninger! The passionate traveller was with us for one of our flights at the Kaiserwinkl Alpin Ballooning and has now published her photos and a nicely written report on her website www.lastsecrets.de. Definitely worth a read! :-) [...]
Last week, we had two fabulous days at the Kaiserwinkl Alpin Ballooning event at Kössen, Austria – this nicely organised balloon meeting is just worth a visit every year! :-) Two wonderful flights – one aboard my own ballon, one alongside it in one of the Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V. – the famous ‘outdoor evening’ and [...]
The German Ballooning Federation DFSV has published the results of the 2017 Qualification and thereby officially confirmed us to take part in the 2018 Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race as Team Germany 3! Bern here we come! :-) Huge thanks to the Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V. – without all your help, we would never [...]
Although the sun didn’t really want to shine, we had great fun last Sunday launching two of our Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V. club balloons at the CMT Holiday Exhibition. Thank you Stuttgart Airport and DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung for a perfect ATC! ;-) #CMT18 [...]
Past weekend, we visited the Allgäulino Montgolfiade at Wertach – and though the weather forecast had been not very promising, we enjoyed two nice flights over the beautiful Allgäu. Some balloons almost reached the city of Munich on Saturday! A big THANK YOU to the town of Wertach, to Allgäulino, Bavaria Ballonfahrten and Kubicek Balloons [...]
For some weeks already, we had the vision in our mind to finish the year with yet another long gas balloon flight… and for the day after Christmas, the weather looked promising for a flight from Stuttgart to Lithuania. As Kaliningrad and Belarus do not allow balloons to enter their airspace, the challenge was to [...]
It’s a tradition for more than 50 years already: Every December, the Sunday after St. Nicholas’ Day at Sonthofen in the beautiful Allgäu, Bishop Nicholas himself gathers all the children’s wish lists and climbs a balloon to take the letters to the Christkind in the heavens, who will then prepare the gifts for Christmas. We [...]
This year has been full of epic flights… but we’re not done yet! ;-) Thursday, December 7th was a perfect opportunity for yet another outstanding flight – beautiful weather and strong winds blowing alongside the Alps. So we met with Thomas from Kubicek Balloons Deutschland, loaded a lightweight 2600m³ ballon with five big cylinders and [...]