Where Legends meet. The CIA International Balloon & Airship Hall of Fame was founded in 1994 by the FAI Ballooning Commission and was originally located at the Soukup & Thomas International Balloon & Airship Museum in Mitchell, South Dakota (USA). The museum closed in 2000 and its...
19 Sep 1992
Article: DOUBLE VICTORY "THERE ARE TWO OCCASIONS WHEN I LOVE TO HEAR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. FIRST IS UPON RECEIVING A FIRST PLACE TROPHY, AND SECOND IS DURING AN OTHERWISE SILENT ASCENT INTO THE NIGHT FOR A GORDON BENNETT ADVENTURE." Article by David Levin as Published in 1992 BFA Ballooning Magazine...
Start: Lech am Arlberg – Schmelzhofwiesen on September 18th from 05:00 a.m. From the Book: Die Gordon Bennett Ballon Rennen (The Gordon Bennett Races) by Ulrich Hohmann Sr With the victory of the team Starkbaum/Röhsler in 1993 the hosting of the race 1994 had returned to Austria. The municipality...
Start: Albuquerque/New Mexico, October 4th 1993 From the Book: Die Gordon Bennett Ballon Rennen (The Gordon Bennett Races) by Ulrich Hohmann Sr After 60 years absence the race has returned to the United States of America. A country, in which so much Gordon Bennett history had been written. Let’s...
Start: Stuttgart, Cannstatter Wasen, September 19th 1992 From the Book: Die Gordon Bennett Ballon Rennen (The Gordon Bennett Races) by Ulrich Hohmann Sr Following the victory of Volker Kuinke and Jürgen Schubert in the 1991 race, Germany got it’s first chance since 1912 to host a Gordon Bennett...
Start: Lech am Arlberg, Austria, September 21 From the Book: Die Gordon Bennett Ballon Rennen (The Gordon Bennett Races) by Ulrich Hohmann Sr It is now the third race, to which my wife Hanne and me are travelling from Nürnberg to the village of Lech am Arlberg in Vorarlberg. We therefore know the...
