Past Flights

  We had a great start to September with some superb weather and lots of flying.  The bank holiday weekend was a bit of a mixed bag but started off well and finished well!  Lloyd, Doris and Audrey had a superb flight and were some of our oldest customers of the year.  I'm sure Audrey won't mind me telling you that she was bought the flight by her family to celebrate her 90th Birthday!  I hope I … [Read more...] about A great start to September flying.

Paul had his first flight with us for his 40th Birthday.  He got hooked and since then has been crewing for us.  Even though he has moved away from the area he still comes crewing as much as he can.  Kate, Paul's wife, has never flown in a balloon, even though Paul has been crewing for nearly 10 years.  Some of their friends were visiting from Belgium and after watching the balloon launch last … [Read more...] about We finally get Kate up in the air!

We had many different nationalities on the flights over the weekend of 23rd July t o 25th July. Gonzalo had arranged to fly with his family who were visiting from Spain on Friday 23rd July We had several different nationalities on the flight on Saturday 24th July.  Juliana won the prize for greatest distance travelled - she is from Brazil and was on holiday visiting relatives.  Seamus was over … [Read more...] about A MULTI NATIONAL FLYING WEEKEND

Everybody on this mornings flight was celebrating a special occasion, but there was great cause for celebration as we had two people who had to get up early on their Birthday's to go ballooning.  Lisa didn't even know what she was going to be doing until she arrived at The Squirrel and saw the balloon - I'm not sure I would get up at 4.30am on my Birthday!!   It was another stunning morning and … [Read more...] about EARLY MORNING CELEBRATIONS!

Lesley and Crystal Hadcroft flew with us on Saturday 12th June 2010.  Crystal has sent us some of her photos she took on the flight - she obviously has an eye for that sort of thing as you can see from the photos.  She is the visual effects editor on many films including Harry Potter. Lesley and Crystal's flight was in memory of someone very special.  They had originally planned to take the … [Read more...] about 12th JUNE 2010