The Gordon Bennett Race 2017 is over! All teams are safely on the ground. The last two hours have been a nervewrecking thriller, first trying to keep ESP-1 on track to the gate to Lithuania, then aborting the flight due to thunderstorm activity in the area and getting them down safely. What an incredible adventure! [...]

Night is setting in and after 24 hours into the race, many teams have decided to land. We are monitoring everything closely from our Command Center at Stuttgart. At the moment, nine balloons remain in the air and will most likely fly until the morning. Our team USA-2 has landed safely near Haynau, Poland. Congrats [...]

After a looong day of preparations, the teams are finally airborne! It was a magnificent scenery on the airfield at Epagny when one gas balloon after the other ascended in the setting sun… and we were completely overwhelmed by the massive crowd of spectators who had come to see the launch!   [...]

While the gas balloon teams were starting their preparations on the launch field, we had the chance to do a little morning flight with our Raven Aerostar Aurora over the surroundings of Epagny Aerodrome – and we had really great fun, as you can see! ;-)   [...]

It is the oldest and most prestigious air race in the world: The Coupe Aéronautique de Gordon Bennett, founded by millionaire sportsman and owner of the New York Herald newspaper, James Gordon Bennett Jr., in 1906. The rules are simple: Fly the furthest distance from launch to landing point in a non-powered gas balloon. This [...]

The Vredefeesten at Sint-Niklaas in Belgium is just so spectacular every year! Ballon flights, special shapes, night glow, concerts, fireworks, gas balloons, gala dinner… and all that in one weekend! But see for yourself… ;-)   [...]

It is a long tradition that we take part at the Landshut Balloon Meeting on the last weekend of August – 20 years ago, we were there for the first time with our model balloons! For the third year in a row, we had beautiful summer weather, so that the night glow on Friday and [...]

Looking through our photos from #MAB2017, one might get the feeling that the Discover Waterford Hot Air Balloon was haunting us throughout the week – they are on so many pictures that I think it’s worth a post :-D So this is for you guys! ;-)   [...]

This past week has just been amazing. Our Facebook page now has over 600 fans… I almost can’t believe it! :-D Our posts and photos from the Mondial Air Balloons 2017 at Chambley have been seen by over 30.000 people. I never thought the passion we live could touch so many hearts. Thank you for [...]