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Welcome to the last blog of 2025 and what a year it has been! This blog is a little different in that it is a look back on the teams highlights from the year. Several of our team members have kindly written a little paragraph about what made 2025 special for them. We have grown…
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Welcome to our latest blog! This one is very special as it allows us to go behind the scenes and look at the making of the UK’s newest special shape balloon! Finley or G-TURT is owned by Chris Freeman who is also one of the UK based Ultramagic Balloons Representatives. Chris has designed and purchased…
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We have had a fantastic year so far. 2025 has been our best year of ballooning since the team was formed in 2008. We have flown more, attended more events, and achieved more than any other year. Throughout the year we have made some incredible memories and in fairness we thought the year had peaked.…
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This blog has come a little later than hoped but work and other commitments have meant I haven’t had the time to write it until now. This blog is focused around Liam Menzies training, pilot training in general and his last training flight which was on the 18th of October 2025. It is really important…
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Wow what an awesome weekend that was! Usually, the season has wound down by now, but this year October is being kind to us weather wise. The team managed four flights in total. Saturday the 11th in the morning saw Jamie flying for our friends at Vista Balloon Flights. This time he flew their Cameron…
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This blog was written by Jon Robinson, a childhood school friend of Jamie’s who joined the team properly this year. We recently surprised Jon with his first flight whilst giving trainee pilot Liam Menzies a training flight. Jon’s experience is detailed below and is written from his perspective: Attending the Northampton Balloon Festival during the…
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We were lucky enough, via a contact we had made earlier in the year, to get an invite to a local event in our hometown of Northampton. The event in question was a remembrance for the great fire of Northampton which happened 350 years ago in 1675. The event was planned with a number of…
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Recently, Jamie has started to fly commercially, and as part of that is doing some work for his long time friend and fellow balloonist Matt Rate. Jamie and Matt have been friends for over a decade, and Jamie actually did the later portion of Matts training to get him his private license many moons ago.…
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Team member and fellow pilot Katie Gower attended the 2025 Chatsworth House balloon meet, the below blog details her and her teams adventures over the weekend. Photo credits also to Katie and her team. At the beginning of the week the weather was looking far from perfect and not flyable at all. However, it’s Chatsworth…
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The team are now recovering from their third event in a row, this time the 2025 Silverstone Festival and wow what an event this was. Silverstone wasn’t initially on the team’s event list for the year but our friends at the Bristol Balloon Collectors contacted us earlier in the year with a unique proposition. To…
