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…
A man from North Carolina attempted a rather unusual hot air balloon flight when he tried to cross the Atlantic under the power of 365 helium balloons. Unfortunately, Jonathan Trappe was unsuccessful in his
Richard Parry, a Chalford local, came out victorious when he took part in the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta’s much loved long distance
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.…
The French Team 1 with pilots Leys & Houver won the Gordon Bennett 2013 Gas Balloon Race flying 1402 km in 73 hours and 33 minutes. The German team, Willi Eimers and Zenge came in second place at 1382 km in 60 hours and 12 minutes- we salute them! …
At 7.10 pm tonight Clive Bailey & Paul Spellward in their gas balloon Lady Britannia landed in near Stenay in a forest in France, due to bad weather looking at coming in close proximity and not being able to cross Paris at low level at night. They have had an…
Clive & Paul are at 11, 000 feet travelling north trying to work out which are the best winds for them to pick up. They are in fine spirits at the moment but the race is going to be a particularly tough one with many excellent and experienced gas balloonists.
