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SLO 2010 canceled

pavla — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:45:22 +0000

Due to a low pressure area crossing Germany on Saturday from Northwest to Southeast, we decided to cancel the competition. The front will push the balloons towards the alps, and there will be clouds and snowfall – no conditions to fly with a gas balloon. After the low pressure area will have crossed our region, the windspeed will be to high for balloon flights.

Webcam for SLO 2010

volker — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:40:48 +0000

We will show the preparation of the balloons using a webcam on the launchfield. Every minute the webcam will load a picture which you can see at: www.webcam.ballon-stuttgart.de. The webcam will start working on Friday, March 5th at 9 o’clock.

Meeting

volker — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:26:32 +0000

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Last Friday we had our last big meeting for the preparation of the Stuttgart Linde Open. We verified the status of the preparation and checked again that all organizers and staff are aware of their duties.

Gas Balloon @ WWW

volker — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:08:24 +0000

http://ballongaz.free.fr

Website of the club Aérostation et ballon à gaz from Gers in the south of France. Gers is about one hundred kilometers west of Toulouse. The website is only in French, but even if you don’t understand the language, you can look at the pictures and the footage.

History – Gordon-Bennett-Race 1922

volker — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:20:42 +0000

British Pathé has a lot of historical footage available. Also of gas and hot air ballooning. If you want to see them, you can look at http://www.britishpathe.com. We have chosen one footage of the Gordon Bennett Race 1922 at Geneva: Gordon 1922 @ British Pathe

Also interesting is the footage documenting the beginning of the modern hot air balloon: Try to find them using the search button or take this link: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=2374

And here is a competition between a gas and hot air balloon: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=2540

Flights

volker — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:27:05 +0000

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To show what flights are possible within 24 hours, we will present some of the past ones here in a loose series.

Geneva-Minorca was a flight in the Gordon-Bennett-Race 2009 – endurance 17 hours.

The graphics were made with the flight analysis program for gliders ‘SeeYou’ from Naviter. For those who want to analyze the flight with this one or another flight analysis program for IGC-Files, we provide the IGC-File: Original – edited.

SeeYou doesn’t contain a gas balloon, so we use our own model: gas_balloon.3ds.

For Google Earth we provide KMZ-Files. You can open these also with www.maps.google.de – click with the right button of the mouse and use Copy link location. Afterwards paste it in the search field of www.maps.google.de and click on Maps-Search.

KMZ for Google Earth / Maps: 20 Trackpoints – many Trackpoints

Link to the Gordon Bennett Race 2009

Stuttgart 1 – Photos – D-OSTZ 27.09.2009

volker — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:17:40 +0000

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Tip: Footage of the world record flight of Janet Folkes

volker — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:38:03 +0000

Janet Folkes’ world record flight at www.youtube.com

Very good footage of the flight undertaken by Janet Folkes and Ann Webb during the Gordon-Bennett Race 2009.

SLO 2010 @ www – 1

volker — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:33:42 +0000

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Flights of our club in the www – 1

volker — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:15:18 +0000

To the footage: www.youtube.com

Footage of the launch D-OSTZ “Stuttgarter Hofbräu” at the Gordon-Bennett-Race on Youtube. What the speaker is saying about us is not really correct, though.