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Dutch National Hot Air Balloon Championship 2010. Congratulations from the worldwide Ultramagic team. Congratulations from the worldwide Ultramagic team to Henk Broeders on coming first and winning the 2010 Dutch National Hot Air Balloon Championship held in Izier, Belgium, between May 14 and May 16. Henk won flying his ADBALLOON Ultramagic Racer. There were […]
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Congratulations to Pierrick Duvoisin on breaking the AX6 world duration record. We are pleased to announce that Pierrick Duvoisin broke the AX6 and AX7 world duration records on the 17th February by flying 27 Hours 41 Minutes (to be ratified). Pierrick made this tremendous achievement using his Ultramagic M-56 specially produced for him by Ultramagic […]
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Aconcagua crossing – Flight Diary by Uwe Schneider. On the 3rd February 2010 Josep Mª Lladó and Uwe Schneider successfully crossed the Andes flying directly over the Aconcagua – the highest mountain in the western hemisphere at 6,962m (22,835ft). They were flying the Ultramagic Ecomagic Aconcagua N-180 balloon. Here is the actual diary account of the […]
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Ultramagic "Aconcagua" balloon safely crosses Aconcagua in the Andes. Josep and Uwe successfully crossed the Andes flying directly over the Aconcagua – 3 February 2010. They took off in the Ultramagic Ecomagic Aconcagua balloon at 7:23 in Illapel in Chile, climbed to 6000 m and then flew for a long time at 5000m to achieve […]