Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Bristol Balloon Fiesta aug 2012

Welcome To The Bristol Balloon Fiesta 9-12TH August 2012 and  press launch-6TH August 2012


Hello and a warm welcome to the Bristol Balloon Fiesta 2012
here are the balloon fiesta video Hi-Lights from the weekends ant ix was so much fun and laughter then bring on Northampton balloon fiesta was just even more aw sum.
2 weeks of  fun filled ballooning happened in around Bristol and Northampton.
here are the video highlights:

Northampton Balloon Fiesta 2012

Welcome To Northampton Balloon Fiesta 17Th-19Th August 2012


Hello and Welcome to Northampton Balloon fiesta that took part during the 2nd half of august 2012, and what a few amazing days we had was great fun, there was a fantastic pilot called Jamie Edwards who is great at training people for flying with to whom i highly recommend to as he is a superb pilot.
anyway here are the videos of the weekends flying ant-ix and i even appeared on one of Matt rowleys GO-PRO cameras and to sum up ballooning there in Northampton was very interesting and aw sum weekend.


these next videos are done by Matt Rowley using the GO-PRO camera in the AERO Balloon

Sat AM

Sat PM

Sunday PM
with many thanx to Matt Rowley for the G0-PRO camera usage on You-Tube.

Now time for some night glow video hi-lights of the NBF  weekend

night glow 1

Night glow 2

night glow 3

Wednesday, 6 June 2012

The Queen's Diamoned jubilee celebration weekend

The Queen's Diamond jubilee celebration weekend of ballooning events
Monday 4th june 2012

with it being the Queen's Diamond, celebration's happened everywhere all over the uk. including events that was happening ans dome events included hot air balloon events to take place especially on monday eve and monday night, the first being monday eve up on bristol's durdham downs flyout and a bonfire beacon was set alight, then we had a night glow over in bath, batheaston that very same night.
I also found a night glow video that happened in kdderminster.
here are some of the weekend's high-lights for your delectation back at home,
for u lot to enjoy :)

GOD SAVE OUR QUEEN!! sky lantern special!!!!

on Bristol's durdham downs before lift off

allie dunnington on/during her flight

this happened in culham, near oxford a nice bit of paramotoring around balloons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ9tCP4vsLw&feature=endscreen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ9tCP4vsLw&feature=endscreen
this bit of lovely ballooning was done by matt rowley fying in the aero balloon and to add to it the music was awsum lovely to add to flying.

these next lot of videos are from liam whitlock ballooning so hope you dont mind liam,
 for me to share them on to my ballooing blog, would be grand!!!
just 1 question liam where is part 1, 5 to mate? if you know where, that would be useful.







with many thanx to liam whitlock for these vids very nice and short.
just want to know the where abouts of vids part 1 and 5?? other than that all very good


this next vid i am found briefly on it.
i was about to help out the cameron new balloon that got built at last years BIBF 2011
this vid i am found briefly on it.
i was about to help out the cameron new balloon that got built at last years BIBF 2011

monday night - balloon nigh glow from bath's solsbury hill
 in batheaston, bath
Monday 4th June 2012



in this vid the balloons were seen from a house a few miles away


the night glow was very successful wiv accoridng to news reports,
I heard  about 200 people attended this balloon night glow.

I also came accross this. another hot air ballloon night glow.
this came somewhere from kidderminster
hope you enjoy

from the Cookley Club near Kidderminster

a beacon got set alight for the queen's Diamond celebration's

the Queen's Diamond jubilee flypast - 5th june 2012

to end the celebrations here is a bonfire/beacon set alight from the Bristol's Durdham Down's on monday night the 4th june 2012

part 1

part 2

part 3

part 4

and finally part 5

hope everyone has enjoyed the queen's dimoned jubilee celebrations and enbjoyed whatever they did, was an awsum experience to watch the queen over the weekend enjoyin her celebration's and was awsum to go and see actual live events i.e being ballooning on the bristol durdham downs and attending a late night balloon glow up on solsbury hill in batheaston, bath. everything was just great.
then watching a flypast the next day of differnet types of aircraft including the red arrows.






Tuesday, 10 April 2012

trim balloon fiesta in Ireland 7th-9th April 2012

welcome to the TRIM balloon fiesta in Ireland APRIL 2012
sat 7th-9th april 2012

Hi all hope you all had a fantastic time at the event from what i've seen and heard was a spectaular night glow that was the best but as luck would have it the weather was typical being the Irish weather put a dampner on most of the flying but i did see/hear of kites being flown so not all doom & gloom.
all balloons could do was tether but still none the less some very old shapes did come out and put on a show. thou i did hear some people complaining about the prices for the event and admission and stuff inside the event but thas what a fiesta is about if it didnt it may have not have happened. still none the less the fiesta went on despite poor weather and put on a show. enough of me blabbing on here are vids of the weekend. hope you lot all enjoy. best highlight i got to say-night glow :) enjoy

this video had a bit of a party rock anthem to it to set things going for balloonists and crowd, this a video reminded me of other night glows ive been to and seen...bibf and nbf 2011

this video had a 'time to say goodbye' theme to it, looked like a good night glow, glad everyone enjoyed it. looked great from what ive seen.

this video just had a nice irish theme night glow music to it and just watch-able, nice night glow.

this video has another set of lovely irish songs to it, good video to watch showing pilots burnig balloons and baskets in time to music with each glow.

this video is just really cool, i watched it twice

this was another watchable video

this video was a last song as it was closing the end of the evenings fantastic night glow.

this video is a full length of the whole night glow with all the music and glowing to be had. a superb fantastic night glow was my highlight of the event.

with a fantastic night glow at trim balloon fiesta in Ireland a massive well done to the pilots involved. for people who dont know much about a night glow here it is, pilots have hot air balloons who glow their balloons in time to music well thats the plan some do miss out on just a bit but they do their best to not mess up and then just get on with it and glow in time wiv everyone else also they have a speaker who tells them when to burn and when not to burn. a night glow also happens at night time to make their balloons stand out more so that the crowd watching will know in future to say oh i remember that ballooon it glowed ever so well. they dont take off at night unless you have special permission to do so under a ruling but as a ruling no balloons take off at night due to obstructions so they stay tethered to the ground and put on a massive light show for the crowd watching this spetacular event.

more on trim balloon fiesta some more videos for you to watch

trims cadbury creme egg turned up to this event to put on a bit of a show!! come on it was an easter weekend after all so the creme egg balloon had to pop up somewhere in a balloon event and where did it pop up to none other than trim balloon fiesta in ireland, sadly was tad too windy for flying as you can see it being buffeted around by the wind.

here are some more videos that were featured whilst at trim and they even managed to do some kite flying take alook at some

kite skills being shown off whilst at trim balloon fiesta april 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0CBCgabbfc&feature=relmfu
Mesmerizing octopus 3d kite with all it's tentacles blowing in the wind as if it was under water, so relaxing to watch !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSblF2xHeJY&feature=related
some bright kites light up the eve sky and NO it wasnt BALLOONS!!!

an aero-batic display at trim balloon fiesta 2012

we even had a spot of parachute-ists entering the fiesta april 2012

heres something as an extra to entertain people through out the day whilst at trim being it easter aswell it kept familys entertained when no ballooning happened

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg7NEcunEEM&feature=relmfu
Great demonstration on Falconry and bird's of prey ! Huge crowd pleaser with lots of fun activities.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgXFW51CRBk
The Irish coast guard helicopter puts on a display at Trim Hot Air Balloon Fiesta 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9fF1BYPb-k&feature=related
Tick tock tick tock turn up the volume and watch .............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Q1eXfR97U
can you stay on longer than these kids did!!!

heres a final compilation of the whole fiesta and with some fireworks to end the fiesta

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOTPN811tnE
A Glimpse of the days events on Saturday from morning till night. Including static Balloon displays, Night Glow night show and fireworks

and here to end the fiesta are some tremendous fireworks
hope you enjoy :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8o46_03YZA
trim balloon fiesta fireworks april 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3jntY2BLlM
left the fireworks till last as it ended an excellent sat night glow.

hope youve all enjoyed my trim balloon fiesta blog ive enjoyed the videos and taking time to upload these just for your delectation back at home!! :)
enjoy everyone and happy ballooning for 2012 :)


Sunday, 26 February 2012

6th artic ballon adventure 2012

the 6th artic ballooning adventure february 2012

DAY 3

in this one at the start the snowman music is played by piano at the start
 im trying to find the right piece for it, does any1 know?

DAY 2 is missing so i find a

DAY 1


im unable to find the day 2 of this atm but this next one is a trailer vid for the artic adventure













Monday, 30 January 2012

filzmoos balloon fiesta in austria jan 7th-15th 2012

hello welcome to the filzmoos balloon fiesta which was held between the 7th jan and the 15th jan 2012 hope everyone that went there enjoyed it, here are some vids of the event.











CHATEAU D'OEX BALLOON FIESTA JAN 2012

welcome to chateau d'oex hot air balloon fiesta 2012 and here are the videos of what happend jan 21st-29th 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgW03h5QJ68
this one here has no video picture for it but i found the you-tube vid of it







this was chateau d'oex 2012 jan 21st - 29th 2012 hope everyone had a good time out there.