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It was on the 21st of November, 1783, when Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François d’Arlandes first boarded one of the Montgolfier Brothers’ famous flying machines. The balloon “Reveillon” took off from the garden of Château La Muette near Paris, covering the distance of about 10 kilometers in 25 minutes and landing near the town [...]
Last weekend, we visited the balloon maintenance training seminar at the German hot air balloon manufacturer SCHROEDER fire balloons. Apart from legal regulations, we learnt a lot about servicing burners and cylinders and doing small envelope and basket repairs. Thank you to Werner Wäschenbach and the employees of SCHROEDER fire balloons for these two interesting [...]
With the current weather in Germany, we can do nothing but remember the wonderful summer! ;-) In the September issue of the BWLV magazine “adler”, our photos from the Mondial Air Ballons 2017 were featured in a report about Europe’s biggest balloon event. Thank you Simone Bürkle for allowing us to republish it! [...]
This Monday evening, we took off from the gas balloon launch site at Düsseldorf-Eller for another hydrogen training flight! Cruising through the evening on a low inversion layer, we hit Frankfurt right at it’s center, having an awesome view of the airport that had just closed for the night. Flying further, we passed the Odenwald, [...]
Throwback Thursday to one of our favourite weekends of the year! :-) The GermanCup 2017 at Pforzheim was such a wonderful event and we still love to look at all the pictures and recall many special memories. Samsony – Photography & Film has made a nice video we want to share with you today – [...]
The fabulous indian summer weather of the past days has just been perfect for ballooning – and so, I finally managed to do my examination flight for my gas balloon license. The sun was so hot that I even had to wear my scarf as a bandana! :-D After two hours and 35 minutes, we [...]
This weekend, we had a fabulous time with the Balloon Club of Augsburg: They had invited us to their gasballoon friendship flight, and after we had waited for quite some time for the morning mist to disappear, the crews enjoyed a wonderful flight over the autumn landscape towards the city of Nördlingen. [...]
