Ballooning history

On this International Women’s Day we wanted to highlight an extraordinary woman in the world of ballooning. Sophie Blanchard (1778 – 1819) was not only

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 in 19 days, 21 hours

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 the Ross Sea of Antarctica.

Trans-Alpine Ballooning.

Any balloon pilot who has been lucky enough to make a balloon flight across the Alps will probably tell you it was the best flight

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 across the English Channel .

Green Ice

Ryan O'Neal has died and not one media story mentions his role in the feature film 'Green Ice' . Our president doubled for him in

DANTE balloon group.

The Dante balloon group can proudly call themselves 'the oldest balloon group still active'. It was formed on 5 December in 1971 by a group

Bristol Belle launches from Ark Royal

Terry Adams has enjoyed an illustrious career in ballooning but before that he was a dashing young Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and surely

Balloon takes telescope to 81,000ft to view Venus

On 28 November 1959 the Stratolab IV balloon ascended to 81,000 feet with a 16 inch Schmidt infra red telescope attached to the top of

World altitude record hot air balloons

On 26 November 2005 Dr.Vijaypat Singhania broke the world altitude recode for hot air balloons after reaching 68,986 feet in Mumbai, India. Cameron Balloons built

21st November is Montgolfier Day

All over the world, 21st November is the day balloonists celebrate the anniversary of the first free flight with human beings. In 1783 in Paris,

Parachute from balloon

It was on this day 16 November 1959 that American balloonist Joe Kittinger made the first high altitude jump. As part of the Execlsior 1

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