| 1783 |
Our predecessors Pilatre de Rozier and
Marquis d'Arlandes made man's first ever hot air flight in a balloon
made of paper rising up on a hot air bubble created by
a burner fuelled by burning straw
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| 1960 |
Ed Yost made the first modern hot air balloon
flight using rip stop nylon and a propane burner
|
| 1978 |
Our Chief Pilot Philip Clark flies out
from Ashton Court to France thus establishing an absolute
distance record for hot air ballooning
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| 1979 |
Appointed Public Relations Company for
the World Hot Air Balloon Championships held in the UK
at Castle Howard - sponsor Robertson Jams
|
| 1980 |
First of two consecutive Women's World
altitude record set by Sue Hazlett in the JCB Balloon
|
| 1984 |
Dawsons Toys our first balloon dedicated
to passenger flights
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| 1990 |
First of two new balloons added to our
passenger fleet sponsored by Sue Sheppard.
|
| 1995 |
First and only company to fly from Westonbirt
Arboretum
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| 1996 |
Guinness Book of Records World Record confirmed
for the highest number of parachutists exiting from a
hot air balloon simultaneously and in association with
the Red Devils Free Fall Parachute Team.
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Throughout the 80's - 90's and until the
present date we have acted for such well known companies
as Champion Spark Plug Co., Hoover, Sterling Health, Planters
Nuts, Proctor & Gamble, BRS, British Airways, Royal Mail,
Perrier, Orangina, Wookey Hole Caves amongst many other
household names in the formulation of regional, national
and international ballooning programmes.
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| 1998 |
Company features on LWT - Cilla's Blind
Date from The Royal Crescent - Bath
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| 1998 |
Andy Elson (former chief pilot) makes first
Everest flight
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| 1999 |
Brian Jones (former chief pilot) makes
the first circumnavigation of the World in Breitling Orbiter
III
|
| 2001 |
Bath Balloon flights, Bristol Balloons,
Castell and Airtime merge to form Ballooning Network
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| 2001 |
Bath Building Society purchase their fourth
public transport joint-venture balloon for the company
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| 2004 |
Two new balloons for the company a 350,000
cu ft. balloon for Bristol Balloons and a fifth Balloon for The Bath Building
Society
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2006 |
Nic Amor joins the company as Operations Manager. Pilots Gavin Hailes and Crispin Williams join the company |
2007 |
Michelle Holloway joins the Company as Sales Manager |
| 2008 |
Delivery of our new Z350,balloon G-CERC manufactured by Cameron Balloons Bristol |
