R 34 Airship first to make Atlantic double crossing by air. July 1919.
On a cold and misty night in July, 1919, His Majesty’s airship R.34 set out from Scotland on what was...
Trailrope Summer 2025
The latest issue of Trailrope is published and on the front cover you see a balloon made in 1937 by...
Sand bag from 1930s Gordon Bennett balloon race
We have recently been donated a sand bag from Jasper Tomlinson via Giles Camplin both of whom worked with Anthony...
The Small World
In 1958 the Atlantic Ocean had yet to be conquered by balloon so it was big news when four people...
Who was the first to fly?
The Courier d’Avignon, dated October 28, confirms these facts: “From Paris, October 18: Here are the details announced last week...
International Women’s Day
On this International Women’s Day we wanted to highlight an extraordinary woman in the world of ballooning. Sophie Blanchard (1778...
First circumnavigation of the world by balloon.
March 21st, 1999 at 6:00 GMT, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones successfully landed in the Egyptian desert, after traveling 45’755km...
Scott & Shackleton’s balloon in Antarctica
On 3 February, 1902, Robert F. Scott’s British National Antarctic Expedition was on its way back to McMurdo Sound in...
Trans-Alpine Ballooning.
Any balloon pilot who has been lucky enough to make a balloon flight across the Alps will probably tell you...
First balloon flight across the English Channel
7 January 1785 – the day Jean Pierre Blanchard and Dr. John Jeffries became the first aeronauts to fly...
Green Ice
Ryan O’Neal has died and not one media story mentions his role in the feature film ‘Green Ice’ . Our...
DANTE balloon group.
The Dante balloon group can proudly call themselves ‘the oldest balloon group still active’. It was formed on 5 December...