Category: Events
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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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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…
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Well, here we are again, another week and another event report. This time the breakdown of the very windy, yet very successful Northampton Balloon Festival. The Northampton Balloon Festival holds a very special place in most of the team’s heart. This is the event where most of us found our passion for ballooning in the…
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The team are now recovering from a very busy weekend at the 2025 Bristol Balloon Fiesta where we had our first collaboration with MJ Ballooning. For those who don’t know MJ Ballooning is a group ran by Bristolian Matt Joyce, a balloon enthusiast with a passion for special shape balloons. Matt has an impressive fleet…
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Strap in, this is going to be a long one! Wow, where to start, the team has had a very busy weekend, and we have managed to get a lot of positive stuff done. I guess the best place to start as with most things is the beginning, which brings us to Friday the 1st of…
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The flying part of ballooning is actually the easiest aspect of the sport. Yes it takes a certain amount of skill to operate a giant bag of fabric on top of an oversized laundry basket filled with pressurised gas that you ignite above your head to keep it in the sky, but compared to the…