April 4, 2019
Yes I say the same as many folk – where do the days go? Time seems to pass ridiculously fast. Since my last post I have […]
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November 11, 2018
I wrote a book. I woke this morning with those 4 words dancing through my mind. The first three months of 2018 had me at my […]
October 10, 2018
It is now one week since team Australia landed D-OWML in a vineyard to end their Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race due to lack of ballast […]
September 6, 2018
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
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
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
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 – […]
September 2, 2018
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 […]
September 1, 2018
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, […]