Start: Antwerp, May 30th 1926 From the Book: Die Gordon Bennett Ballon Rennen (The Gordon Bennett Races) by Ulrich Hohmann Sr This year not Solbosch at Bruxelles, but Antwerp was selected as launch place. This town is not more distant from the sea, but that's something which cannot be a topic for...
Start: Bruxelles (Solbosch), June 7th From the Book: Die Gordon Bennett Ballon Rennen (The Gordon Bennett Races) by Ulrich Hohmann Sr The fight for the second Gordon Bennett Cup had begun. Would it take another 18 years until one nation could notch up three victories in a row? Belgian sculptor Van...
Belgium finally wins the Coupe Start: Bruxelles-Solbosch, Sunday, June 15th From the Book: Die Gordon Bennett Ballon Rennen (The Gordon Bennett Races) by Ulrich Hohmann Sr Not only superstitious people looked forward to the race with the number 13 with sorrows. After the incidents the year before...
Start: Brussels, September 23rd, 4 p.m. From the Book: Die Gordon Bennett Ballon Rennen (The Gordon Bennett Races) by Ulrich Hohmann Sr This will be the race, in which the attendant circumstances were to be more reported than about the flight itself. If this would have been the third victory in a...
Start: Geneva, Sunday, August 6th From the Book: Die Gordon Bennett Ballon Rennen (The Gordon Bennett Races) by Ulrich Hohmann Sr The two Swiss officers, Paul Armbruster and Louis Ansermier, had brought the race to this alpine country for the second time after 1909. As the winners in 1908, Schaeck...
Start: Bruxelles (Solbosch), September 21st 1921 From the Book: Die Gordon Bennett Ballon Rennen (The Gordon Bennett Races) by Ulrich Hohmann Sr All Belgium celebrated the victory of Ernest Demuyter a year before. This small nation, badly struck by the past war, had gotten a hero, had to host the...