Balloon packed and sitting with our local helper in the pub already

Good landing at Bacau

Very nice people welcomed us and helped us pack up the balloon.

Super Chase Crew

Petra and Andreas are already past Clausenburg / Cluj.
That's an achievment! They left yesterday evening Stuttgart.

Sunrise over Romania

Still being in charge and Volker is having a good night sleep.

Wild Carpat Mountains

Preparing for landing

The night over the Carpats

Now over Klausenburg heading East. Tomas had the first sleeping shift, now Volker takes over the "snorring with the wolfes".

Into the next night

Expecting to fly into Romania and there over th Carpat Mountains

And now over the third European Capitol

Also here great teamwork with Budapest air traffic control.

Flying over Slovakia into Hungary

Crossing the Danube

And flying past Bratislava

There we also found very nice controllers that were very interested into gas ballooning and new about the Gordon Bennett races.

Flying past Vienna

Due to the help if our friend Michael Reichert, Vienna control welcomed us with wide open arms. We went a little lower to get more to the south in order to avoid the Ukraine.

Impressions after take-off

Took off at 1737 heading towards Aalen

Before our trip to go east

Thank you to all making this possible especially Pavla. :*

German Championships

General briefing

Launch in Stuttgart

With Allie, Peter and Matt

Super Verfolger - Anke und Andreas waren bei der Landung da.
Super ATC Unterstützung durch Michel Reichert
Tolle Wetterunterstützung durch Stefan Handl und Christoph Almodt.
Sehr nette Fluglotsen.
Nach ca. 63 Std. Fahrt sind wir trotzdem noch fit und nur leicht unterkühlt.

Danke an alle die uns unterstützt und mitgefiebert haben!

Landing after some 63 hours :)

wir sind da

Traces in the snow

For Pavla