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.<\/p>\n
We accurately monitored the development, and just in the right moment we inflated our little balloon and took of as the first, thus opening Europe’s biggest balloon festival! =) Thanks to the many helping hands that made our launch go smooth as possible.<\/p>\n
The direction was a bit challenging indeed, with many prohibited zones and airspaces ahead, but we managed to find a nice landing spot near Nov\u00e9ant-sur-Moselle. What a nice evening! :-)<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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