Team USA 2 (Sullivan / White) landed. Thank you for a spectacular flight! Team USA 2 landed in southern Portugal. Pilots Mark Sullivan and Cheryl White as well as the other three teams still flying are to be congratulated for one of the most tactical flights in the long tradition of the Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett. A flight containing all the... Read more ....

  The Bel1 and Fin1 teams are in a private hotel of the Algerian Government. Everything seems OK and there is a great protection from the government. (5 policemen on and around the hotel room of Luc and Ronny). Today the balloons are on the news all over Algeria in prime time. Also in Belgium reporters have heard the news about the Belgian Gordon... Read more ....

Teams FIN and AUT landed in Algeria After many hours out on the sea and a time-consuming “battle” to find the winds to make landfall, these two teams finally made it. FIN (Olli Luoama / Ben Mattsson) and AUT (Gerald Stuerzlinger / Nikolaus Binder) are relieved to stay on a firm ground now. We have been in contact with the brave pilots... Read more ....

USA 1 (Fricke / Cuneo) landing in France confirmed At 06 UTC / 08 loc the US pilots Barbara Fricke and Peter Cuneo landed their balloon SE of Perpignan close to the city of Villeneuve-de-la-Raho, less than 10 km away from the coastline. 07.09.2009 Team SUI 3 (Krebs/Vollenweider) landed close to Valencia Swiss pilots Max Krebs and Walter Vollenweider... Read more ....

07.09.2009 09:00 loc (monday): Bulletin The Coupe continues to deliver very challenging stories. Yesterday (sunday) four balloons had landed safely: GER2, GER1, FRA and GER3. During the early hours last night team GBR 1 had concluded its flight in the NE of Spain. We very closely monitored the teams AUT, FIN and BEL who are just north of Algeria.... 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 ....