G-AVTL

Name: Bristol Belle

Type: Brighton 65

Serial number: MAB 1

First flown: 9/7/67 Weston-on-the-Green, Oxon

Notes: Bristol Belle was the first modern hot-air balloon, built in the United Kingdom by Don Cameron, Mark Westwood, Bill Malpas, Giles Bulmer. Charles Meizl, Malcolm Brighton and Tom Sage. The envelope was finished at Vacuum Relex Ltd. In Essex and later modified by RFd-GQ Ltd. Of Woking 29/11/70 Flew to Malta from the deck of HMS Ark Royal.

Credit: Richard Hands, BBM&L