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 [...]

For Saturday evening, we had the option to do a fly-in to Chambley airfield, and as it is usually windy on airfields, we decided to look for a nice sheltered spot to take off from. Which we found, actually, but the wind predictions given at the briefing proved to be anything but true, and so [...]

Friday evening finally promised at least a streak of sunlight for the flight – and there it was, beautifully colouring the western skies over Chambley Planet’Air. The balloons flew in an northeasterly direction towards the city of Metz, most of them landing near Gorze, but some of them – like us – also in the [...]

Thursday offered some time to relax again, as both flights had to be cancelled, but on Friday morning, the weather was finally fine enough for the “Great Line”, the record attempt with the most balloons aligned on the airfield of Chambley. Although the sun was missing, views were overwhelming, and with 456 balloons total, we [...]

We didn’t really believe Wednesday morning to be flyable, so we decided to sleep in – which proved to be a failure, as the pilots launching from Chambley Air Base really had a nice morning flight! However, we were back in the skies in the evening, flying with 472 other balloons in a northeasterly direction [...]