Balloons at Inflation Day 2026
This page will serve as a place to come to learn which balloons we plan to bring to Inflation Day...
Inflation Day 2026 – registration form.
Plans are afoot to organise the Inflation Day on Saturday 25 April 2026 which will be the same venue as...
Inflation Day – 2026. Put it in your diary.
Inflation Day 2026 Time certainly flies quickly, and I find myself already putting the early plans together for the next...
BBM&L AGM and Annual Luncheon 2025
It was a splendid event with many balloonists old and young attending. Donnington Valley Hotel provided a great meal and...
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...
Midlands Air Festival 2025
The BBM&L had a successful Midlands Air Festival event. Sadly, the weather was windy, which restricted the flying slots to...
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...
New Atlantic attempt
A new attempt to fly a balloon across the Atlantic Ocean is being prepared in Presque Isle, Maine. The same...
AGM, lunch, speaker, auction and raffle
The annual BBM&L AGM lunch was a great success with a healthy number of people joining us at a new...
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...
Dr. Jenner’s balloon flight replicated 240 years on
The county’s first hydrogen balloon flight has been recreated by aviation enthusiasts on its 240th anniversary. Father of immunology Edward...