{"id":3658,"date":"2017-12-11T21:53:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T19:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/?p=3658"},"modified":"2017-12-11T21:53:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T19:53:48","slug":"long-distance-flight-along-the-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/?p=3658","title":{"rendered":"LONG DISTANCE FLIGHT ALONG THE ALPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year has been full of epic flights&#8230; but we&#8217;re not done yet! ;-) Thursday, December 7th was a perfect opportunity for yet another outstanding flight &#8211; beautiful weather and strong winds blowing alongside the Alps. So we met with Thomas from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kubicekballoons.de\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kubicek Balloons Deutschland<\/a>, loaded a lightweight 2600m\u00b3 ballon with five big cylinders and took off at 8 o&#8217;clock in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Our flight led us along Bad T\u00f6lz, Miesbach, Rosenheim, Lake Chiemsee, passing north of Salzburg and then flying on to V\u00f6cklabruck, Bad Hall and Steyr, finally landing near Waidahammer south of Amstetten. In 7 hours and 15 minutes of flight time, we covered a distance of 327 kilometers. What an epic adventure! :-)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flight data:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Balloon: 2600m\u00b3 D-OTBJ Kubicek BB26E lightweight polyester (envelope weight 70 kg)<br \/>\nBurner: Cameron Super Single Shadow<br \/>\nBasket: Kubicek K13S<\/p>\n<p>Flight time: 7 h 15 min<br \/>\nPropane used: 330 l<br \/>\nDistance: 327 km<br \/>\nMax. height: 9500 ft.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year has been full of epic flights&#8230; but we&#8217;re not done yet! ;-) Thursday, December 7th was a perfect opportunity for yet another outstanding flight &#8211; beautiful weather and strong winds blowing alongside the Alps. So we met with Thomas from Kubicek Balloons Deutschland, loaded a lightweight 2600m\u00b3 ballon with five big cylinders and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3661,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions\/3661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}