Clive Bailey flew John Sargeant in the BBC One Show Balloon over the Badges of Honour which were carved by soldiers in the First World War into the hillside. These amazing testimonial badges were made by the soldiers at Fovant in Wiltshire to serve as an memorial to the…
Thank you very much to all of the hundreds of people who entered our balloon flight competition. The deadline was Midnight on 31st October! We still had people entering up to the last few minutes! We are delighted that Paula Hillier was drawn out of the hat (a pointed one…
Enter our competition to be in with a chance to win a pair of Champagne Balloon Flight vouchers for a balloon ride over Bath, Bristol or South Wales. Enter now by liking our facebook page and entering your details! Share with all of your friends- if they win perhaps they…
Autumn is always a spectacular time of year and this year we have seen a huge number of berries on the trees and bushes. Hope you have been enjoying Blackberry and Apple Crumble- one of our favourites! Two interesting facts about Autumn! On the first day of Autumn, the sun…
Clive Bailey earlier in the year went up to Liverpool for the One Show to do some aerial filming of the Liver Birds with the Oktocopter. The birds reside on the top of the Liver Building which was built in 1911 and are the Royal Liver Friendly Society head offices, It…
Last night we took off from Royal Victoria Park and had a beautiful hot air balloon flight landing at Leys Farm near Keynsham. We were spotted by Paddy, aged two and Lottie, his mother who took these lovely photos and sent them to us. The first one is looking over…
The Nazca Lines are a series of ancient designs in Peru, made in the ground by removing the reddish pebbles and uncovering the whitish/grayish ground beneath, The designs are simple and some are more complex of birds, fish, trees or flowers with the largest being over 200 metres across. The meanings…
We have had a couple of weeks of unseasonably cold weather but the sun has come back and temperatures are set to rise a bit over the week-end and into next week. We had a fabulous hot air balloon flight from Bath this morning landing at Rode. The flights times…
Clive travelled up to just outside Manchester to film for the BBC One Show using our Oktocopter. He was filming a maze that had been designed and built for the One Show out of a pattern in a maize field along with presenter Christine Walkden.…
An Indian summer is a heat wave tthat happens in the Autumn when there is a spell of above-normal temperatures, often with dry and hazy conditions, usually after there has been a hard frost. For the Northern Hemisphere it usually occurs between late September and mid November.…
