Category: Flight Report
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We have gone two for two in terms of events over the last couple of weeks. We hadn’t fully recovered from an amazing weekend at Troutbeck when we were already setting off for the next event of the season. Another inaugural event too from Showtime Events, this time in Yorkshire. The ballooning side of things…
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Wow what a weekend that was! We have just got back from the very first (of hopefully many) Troutbeck Balloon Meet! This one has gone straight to being one of the best meets we have ever attended. The event was organised by Dan King, Maddie King, and Mark Stelling (along with the support of their…
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The 2026 ballooning season is off to a flying start, pun intended! Least year we enjoyed our first flights in April. So, for the 2026 season we were keen to beat the previous year. For months, the UK was hammered by almost nonstop rain and then in March it began to ease off. After what…
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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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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…
