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On Tuesday afternoon, noone really believed that we would fly in the evening. But the weather predictions proved true, and up we went! =) The controller from Lorraine airport was very friendly, and so we could continue our flight in his CTR towards the south-east… don’t think we’ve ever flown that far from Chambley! [...]
For as long as we can remember, stormy weather has been an integral part of the Mondial Air Balloons. All the more amazing it was for us that the Sunday evening flight could in fact take place, after our awning had only just survived the afternoon. So we enjoyed a short evening hop from Chambley [...]
The first flight at this year’s Grand Est Mondial Air Ballons was quite an exciting one: Winds at the ground were quite strong, but predicted to go down as sunset approached – the only question was would they decrease early enough to still have some time to fly before sunset. We accurately monitored the development, [...]
It was on the 21st of July in 2013, ten years ago on this very day, when we officially launched our new website “alifeofballooning.com” with its first post. Back then, we had set it up as a kind of blog, where we wanted to share some pictures from our experiences at Europe’s biggest balloon festival, [...]
Last weekend we spent at Heidenheim at the annual balloon meeting of the Ballonsportclub Hellenstein e.V. :-) As the weather predictions for Saturday evening and Sunday morning were not that favourable, we decided to set up a rather spontaneous flight on Friday evening, which proved to be really nice! The second flight on Saturday morning [...]
