It was on this day 16 November 1959 that American balloonist Joe Kittinger made the first high altitude jump. As
The weekend of October 8/9 saw a veritable feast of ballooning in Britain starting with the launch of
British Transatlantic Balloon couple, Mike and Deborah Scholes, have now safely retrieved their balloon, G-Z0Z0 from its remote landing site
We are delighted to announce that the National Lottery Heritage Fund has awarded the British Balloon Museum & Library a
The first successful Transatlantic balloon flight was in 1978. There have been another 11 flights since then. The list does
To celebrate World Book Day we were sent a picture of our President's favourite balloon books with pictorial covers from
ABNEY PARK TRUST AND BIOGRAPHER SHARON WRIGHT JOIN FORCES TO HONOUR 19TH-CENTURY BALLOONIST MARGARET GRAHAM – THE FIRST ENGLISH WOMAN
Well we finally got the 16th BBM&L Inflation Day event completed - the previous days forecast was so frustrating and
We are delighted that David Hopkins has kept to his promise that the event can be held on his
Vice President of the British Balloon Museum & Library. We were saddened to hear that Renee had died in her
The sad news has reached us of the death of Don Piccard aged 95. He was our Vice President from
The balloons pictured below all registered to attend the Inflation Day and we take our hats off to all the