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Beer glass issued at the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, 9-11 August 1991.  The event was sponsored by Unipart, the glass...

This sand bag was carried on a gas balloon flight in the Gordon Bennett Balloon Race by Belgian team of...

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...

This is an engraving from one of the finest balloon paintings of all time, the water-colour by J. Dighton which...

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...