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Back to Filzmoos! After we had had so much fun there mid-January, a most welcome opportunity turned up one month later… and oh what a stunner that was! The Dachstein mountains surely are a great sight to behold… thank you Flaggl Ballooning for this amazing chance to fly there =) [...]
It had been a dream, nourished for years: An Alpine Crossing with my D-OSBK, the first balloon I bought back in 2010. In the meantime, it is 20 years old and has got over 650 hours in the book – an outstanding example for the excellent quality produced by Kubicek Balloons! In early February, a [...]
Next stop: HOME :-) After the balloon meetings at Tannheim and Kaiserwinkel have been officially cancelled, we’re enjoying flying at home with many many friends – and FOUR special shapes today! Thank you Kubicek Balloons Deutschland for hosting this spontaneous gathering ;-) [...]
Sometimes, one day is worth more than a week of ballooning. And the 19th of January was such a day! =) The stunning mountains in snowy white, the sky blue as can be, and we right in the middle of all that, on a wonderful one hour flight from Filzmoos towards Schladming. The celebrations afterwards [...]
Our latest adventure led us to Sweden – with two gas balloons! =) Months ago already, we had reserved the last weekend of October for a Gordon Bennett qualification flight – and as the weekend approached, the weather models showed that a flight to the north would be possible. We informed Austrian fellow pilot Wuzi [...]
Another incredibly beautiful week of ballooning is over. Again ten flights in and around Kirchberg / Tyrol… how lucky can you be? :-) It is indeed difficult to name a highlight of this week, but our sunrise flight to Waidring and the two flights to Zell am See and Saalfelden surely do stand out! The [...]
It had been a long wait, after the 2020 edition of the Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett had been postponed to 2021. Due to the possibility of another postponement or even a cancellation, motivations were not too high to pull off a big one, so we kept our preparations and publicity to the absolute minimum. Which [...]