Soaring 35000 meters into the atmosphere might not be everyone’s idea of fun, but thanks to an innovative collaboration between engineers at Expleo and French aeronauts at Stratoflight, thrill-seeking tourists might soon be heading into space abord a balloon assisted space vessel in as little as three years.
To celebrate International Women’s Day, we are looking back at some of the most influential women in hot air ballooning. As far back as the late 1700s women have been involved in hot air ballooning. After the Montgolfier brothers demonstrated the first ever tethered flight with humans on board in…
At the end of December, Vijay Shah, the minister of Madhya Pradesh Forest in central India, announced a ground-breaking new aeronautical adventure in
Last month, NASA scientists announced their intention to send specially adapted hot air balloons to Venus as part of ongoing international research into the composition of the mysterious orb. Venus is the second planet from
Local balloon enthusiast Thomas Lee gave Gloucestershire residents something to talk about when he landed in a layby near Dursley in South Gloucestershire last
The winners of the Landscape Photographer of the Year for 2018 were announced in mid-October, and local photographer Alex Wolfe-Warman took home the prize for the Urban View award. Now in its 12th year, the
A team of engineers recently attempted to break the world record for the highest ascent of a hot air balloon in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but were foiled by the weather. The solar balloon is
Schoolchildren at a Bristol-based primary school were given a treat as they were visited by the world’s very first
Scientists involved in Google’s internet-delivering hot air balloons recently announced a breakthrough in their research, which could bring the final product years closer to becoming a reality. The project – known as Project Loon – is a
Two Russian men have recently broken a 20-year-old record for the longest nonstop hot air balloon flight. Adventurer Fyodor Konyukhov has
