Back in the late 1960s when this modern era of hot air ballooning was in its infancy, pilots all wore
One of the posters in the collection is from 1982 when the BBM&L mounted an exhibition of ballooning in the
Newbury will always be remembered as a nucleus for balloonists since the start of this modern era of ballooning and
A beer mat produced by Heineken to coincide with its sponsorship of International Balloon Meetings. This one depicts G-AZER
Vincenzo Lunardi's Second Balloon: 1785 This is an engraving from one of the finest balloon paintings of all time, the
One of the favourite books in our library is 'Record of an Aeronaut' by Gertrude Bacon. It is a biography
To this day this is still quite a remarkable flight, not many balloons have flown from aircraft carriers while on