Congratulations to Swiss pilots Stefan & Heinz Wälchli on making an amazing night flight.
We are pleased to announce that Stefan and Heinz recently made a winter night flight of nearly 15 hours. They made this tremendous flight using the Aconcagua Ultramagic N-180 specially produced by Ultramagic out of AEROFABRIX® insulated fabric. This is the same balloon that earlier in the year was flown by Josep Lladó and Uwe Schneider over the Aconcagua Mountain in the Andes.
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Congratulation Stefan and Heinz from the World Wide Ultramagic Team on a fantastic achievement.
See below details of this amazing night flight at high altitude where the average fuel consumption was only 18.4 kg/hr!
AEROFABRIX® insulated fabric is available exclusively from Ultramagic and can be supplied in a range of envelope options.
See also the news item on "Ecomagic! The worlds most fuel efficient Hot Air Balloons".
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| Takeoff (Location/Date/Time): |
Bern (Switzerland) / 19.11.2010 / 15:52 UTC |
| Takeoff (Location/Date/Time): |
Augsburg (Germany) / 20.11.2010 / 06:32 UTC |
| Duration (Total/Flight): |
14:40h |
| Crew: |
2 pilots, Stefan & Heinz Wälchli (Switzerland) |
| Envelope: |
Ultramagic N-180 EcoMagic Aconcagua 5100 m³ |
| Burner: |
Ultramagic BMK-050 Powerplus Maxi Double |
| Cylinders on board: |
4 x 40 kg + 6 x 30 kg |
| Takeoff Mass (Propane Mass): |
1232 kg (340 kg) |
| Landing Mass (Propane Mass): |
956 kg (64 kg) |
| Actual consumption: |
18.4 kg/h |
| Takeoff elevation: |
445 m AMSL |
| Landing elevation: |
481 m AMSL |
| Maximum flight altitude: |
3277 m AMSL |
| Lineal distance covered: |
302 km |
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EC-LDV inflated with HB-QOK |
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| Heinz |
Stefan |
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| Night! |
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| Track |
Altimeter and vario record |
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| Sunrise |
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| Landing |