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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...