Adventures Aloft ballooning

08/07/2026

08/07/2026

1st inflation of Deep Purple Dreams.
Due to possible storms developing in the area, a lingering cold, that started causing ear popping this afternoon, and green crew borrowed from local pilots.

01/19/2025

T-minus 40 hours

09/17/2024

and I thought strategies were getting risky by Aut-2, nad later Ger-3, venturing out over the Atlantic.
Germany 3 apeears well in-line to reach back onto the Portugese shore, Austria still needs a bit more left to get back to shore, but the real story now is Sui-1, who went right on past the southern Portugese shore, and is either going to have to find a hard turn to get back to land, or will have to continue a long flight over water to the African continent, which is out of bounds...

06/20/2024

RIP Donald Sutherland

06/01/2024

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05/31/2024

Today's diary entry, the Hydrogen truck is on-site.
not sure if their plans were to have the truck there long-term, or if this is a good indicator that the weather forecast for this weekend is good...
The blog also does indicate that Bert and the team arrived Thursday to start preparations...

. Torabhaig Atlantic Explorer Diary 2024 LIVE UPDATES, NEWS AND PROGRESS REPORTS FROM MISSION CONTROL 31-05-2024: PREP IN MAINE We were...

05/30/2024

Scheduled to be launching as soon as tomorrow. Launch date and time to be determined by weather conditions.

The fact that we are still relying on weather predictions, based on historical data, says to me that we still believe the climate is behaving as it always has...

This September, the Torabhaig Atlantic Explorer gas balloon, co-piloted by Sir David Hempleman-Adams and Bert Padelt alongside entrepreneur, explorer and scientist, Dr. Frederik Paulsen, will take flight as part of an audacious adventure of old friends on a journey that will look for new scientific....

12/02/2023

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