Category: Guest Blog
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In this blog team member Katie Gower has kindly written about her adventures from the 2026 homebuilders meet. This has become an annual event held at Sackville Airfield in Riseley, Bedfordshire. The event was held from the 11th to the 13th of September. Sackville is the home of homebuilding for many balloonists in the UK.…
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Welcome to our latest blog! This time written by team member Hannah Golding and detailing, her and her families adventure into model ballooning. Whilst Liam dreams big and hopes to one day own and pilot his own full-size hot air balloon. Helen made a passing comment last year that she’d quite like a cute little…
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This blog has been kindly written by team member Helen Goldring. Her and her son Liam attended the 2026 Llangollen Model Balloon Meet on the 14th of March 2026. When we think of a model we imagine a 1:24 scale replica. That’s not the case with model hot air balloons. They may be smaller than…
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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…
