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September 19, 2018

First Practice Flight Done

2am 16 September: Team AUS 1 along with Wilhelm Eimers lifted off from the Gladbeck Gas Balloon Launch Site with the Russian Gordon Bennett team of […]
September 12, 2018

Pre-Gordon Bennett Activity

After a demanding 40 hours of travel from Australia – delayed flights, missed flights we finally reached Bottrop close to Dusseldorf in Germany and where our […]
September 8, 2018

On Our Way to the Race

“You’ve got this gas balloon caper in the bag Ma”. So said my younger son Grant. “You are a glutton for punishment”. So said one of […]
September 7, 2018

The Bond of Survival

I first met Shawn Mackinga an American balloon pilot in Australia in 1989. One month later we were on a marlin fishing boat that was wrecked […]
September 6, 2018

The Generosity of German Pilots

Below is another photo of our gas balloon D-OWML (Oscar Whiskey Mike Lima) Hello to our new German friends – Alfons Volker and his son Ben […]
September 5, 2018

A Reunion in Europe

I had last seen Rien Jurg in 1988, the year Australia had a 200th birthday party. And the Trans-Australia Bicentennial Ballooning Challenge captured the good and […]
September 4, 2018

Generosity of Dutch pilots

The very nature of ballooning, both hot air and gas, offers repeated opportunities to experience joy. One is lifted skywards standing in an open basket with […]
September 3, 2018

Generosity of Swiss Pilots

The official FAI Race invitation was sent all FAI countries. Our Australian Ballooning Federation returned the required forms for the nomination of TEAM AUSTRALIA 1 – […]