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 Leonid Tiukhtyaev and Mariya… read more →
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 rental home is for… read more →
“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 my Australian ballooning friends.… read more →
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 by a 7 metre… read more →
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 responsible for organising this… read more →
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 bad of partygoers everywhere.… read more →
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 a 360 degree view… read more →
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 – Ruth Wilson & Tanys… read more →
We are on countdown to GB launch day from a stunning city in Switzerland – Bern. My first gas balloon flight occurred in Switzerland in 1985 with the amazing Swiss… read more →
Hot air ballooning (different from gas ballooning) has taken me to fly in many countries, world championships and rallies – United States of America, Japan, Canada, France, Austria, Germany, Italy,… read more →
