Touch Down

The French team (FRA1) won the “53e Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett”, after 4 days of flight, landing near the airport of Lagos, in the extreme south-west of Portugal.Sébastien ROLLAND and Vincent LEYS have flown 1587 km,overtaking the Swiss 1 team of 17 km!  As required by the rules, France will be the organizer of the 55th Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett 2011. The 2010 edition will leave from England, whose team won the 2008 edition in Albuquerque (USA).

Team GBR1 landed safely at 01:40 (Monday)  Pilots David Hempleman-Adam and Simon Carey landed safely in the NE of Spain. The retrieve crew was on site when the balloon landed. All is safe and clear. 11 ballons are still flying, all over the Mediterranean Sea. The Belgian team is working hard to find a way out… ore must we say A WAY IN! ... Read more ....

The French pilots Thierry Villey-Desmeserets and Benoît Pelard confirmed their landing on the foothills of the Pyrenees, near Perpignan, after almost 18 hours flight-time and 480 km distance. Bepperl Höhl and Georg Sellmaier reached Sardinia, landing was confirmed some time ago. The German team reached the Italian island of Sardinia just before... Read more ....

GER1 (Eimers / Seel) and GER2 (Hora / Löschhorn) landed safely on the island of Menorca. Did they make the right decision? We’ll see later on …