24 Sep 2016
Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett 2016 champions - Switzerland’s Kurt Frieden and Pascal Witpraechtiger (Team SUI 1) - made history when they landed in Stavros in central Greece during this year’s race. Not only were they the only competitors to reach Greece, they were also the first ever gas...
24 Sep 2016
Switzerland’s Kurt Frieden and Pascal Witpraechtiger (Team SUI 1) were crowned champions of the 60th Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett – the world’s most prestigious gas balloon race – at an elegant ceremony in Gladbeck, northwest Germany tonight. Team SUI 2 pilots Nicolas Tièche and Laurent Sciboz...
30 Sep 2016
One hundred and ten years ago on 30 September 1906 US aviator Lieutenant Frank Purdy Lahm won the first ever Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett, a prestigious balloon race that still takes place today. The idea of the race is simple: balloon pilots must take off and fly as far as they can,...
05 Oct 2016
The Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, received an official trophy on 30 September 2016 to mark her involvement with this year’s Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett. Merkel was patron of the prestigious gas balloon race this year, which saw 24 balloons launch from Gladbeck, northwest Germany...
28 Oct 2016
This will be the 3rd time (1989, 1997 and 2016) that Saga is hosting the FAI World Championships. Today, Saturday and Sunday are practice flying days. The competition will constist of morning and afternoon flights over 7 days (Monday, 31 October - Sunday, 6 November). In the past the Worlds has run...
29 Oct 2016
Competitors, crews, officials and balloonists from around the world are converging on Saga Japan for the 22nd FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championship. The FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championship is held every two years with the previous championship being held in Brazil in 2014. The medal winners...
