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There ’s something in a flying horse, There ’s something in a huge balloon.
William Wordsworth
A complete program, schedule, and entry forms for this prestigious ballooning competition. Buy your advance souvenirs, find out about attractions and accommodations, and more.
A volunteer-run site with resource information catering to a wide variety of interest and experience levels. This site focuses on the history and current status of airships and blimps rather than balloons, but a lot of the general information is applicable to ballooning as well.
Aunty Monkey is a nonprofit, nonpolitical ballooning fanzine, focusing on the lighter, fun side of ballooning. It’s a very cool, graphical site with a decidedly Generation-X feel to it and lots of good solid ballooning information. You can also subscribe to the hard-copy version.
All the details about around-the-world balloon racing teams attempting a world flight in 1997-1998. Includes all the press releases pertaining to each team, and links to related sites.
A very nice global ballooning site, with links to ballooning information all over the world, broken down by location and site purpose (clubs, organizations, balloon rides, commercial sites, and so on).
This site doesn’t provide much in the way of free samples; you must subscribe to the magazine to access most of the content. However, subscribers will find a wealth of information about ballooning, including articles on insurance, photography, special events, and contests.
Wow! What a comprehensive list of Web addresses for all things related to ballooning. From here you can jump to sites for various “Around the World” attempts, as well as pages and pages of ballooning history, advice, and photography.
A colorful, complete, and thoroughly enjoyable site. Features an interactive “Take a Cyber-Ride” balloon ride expedition, a mall area for shopping for balloon-related items, and a map showing balloon ride vendors all over the U.S.
A site offering adventures in Hot Air Ballooning, including rides, instruction, and equipment sales. Available for parties, weddings, and sightseeing flights around historic San Antonio and the surrounding hill country.
A company that provides hot air balloon flights for the able and disabled. The baskets of Innovation’s balloons are specially adapted to allow easy access and perfect views from a wheelchair. Very cool, if you happen to be in the U.K.
The NSBF is a NASA facility managed by the Physical Science Lab of New Mexico State University. They launch, track, and recover scientific balloon experiments all over the world, and this page shows some of their PR materials and photographs. Interesting in a science-geek sort of way.
The site of the major American ballooning organization. Includes membership information, events, competition standings, and products for sale, all geared to the experienced ballooner.
A must-bookmark site for the serious balloon enthusiast, this New Mexico-based company sells and repairs balloon equipment, prints banners for the balloons, and even manages balloon events.
This list discusses all aspects of building lighter-than-air vehicles including hot air and gas balloons and airships (thermal or gas, rigids and blimps).To subscribe send mail to ltabuilder@launch.net, “subscribe” (w/o the quotes) must be the subject.
This list is intended for trading, buying and selling of balloon related items. To subscribe send mail to lta-forsale@launch.net, “subscribe” (w/o the quotes) must be the subject.
This list covers more general airship topics such as the history, future, and philosophy of airships. To subscribe send mail to listproc@lists.colorado.edu. The message (no subject) should contain the following: Subscribe airship-list “your name”.
The group is here to discuss any topics in relation to LTA aircraft (Lighter Than Air). This includes Hot Air Balloons, Gas Balloons, Airships, and Hot Air Airships. To subscribe, send email to majordomo@lboro.ac.uk and in the body of the message, put “subscribe balloon.”