22nd Model Balloon Meeting at Brigachtal

With over 60 participants, the Model Balloon Meeting at Brigachtal 2007 followed the success of the years before. The weather was also nice.

On Friday evening, organiser Richard Bölling welcomed the teams who had come from all over Europe in the festival hall at Überauchen.

One, two, three: Matthias Schlegel, Bastian Schwarz and Sophie Knechtel had taken the first numbers this year. This way, Matthias fulfilled his last Brigachtal dream: After winning first place in 2004 and getting the wonderful challenge trophy for another fifth place in 2006, there was only one thing left: To launch as number one!

Fog bound on Saturday morning: The first task to fly was a target line and a fox chase. Cunningly, the fox headed for the village - but Werner Schlegel with the D-OWMS "Urmele" balloon followed him immediately.

The pilots had to perform a thrilling sprint across the village to follow their balloons - the competition almost became a minor matter. Matthias was also very glad to recover his Penguin which had landed in the kitchen garden of the "Hirschen" hotel.

Mouse meets Elephant: The siblings from the "TV Show with the Mouse " were together in the air for the first time. Bernd Schwab and Martin Eutermoser were the pilots of the funny shapes.

At the flight on Saturday afternoon, the special shapes showed up again. This time, Bastian Schwarz also put up his "Special Sheep".

Werner Schlegel with the Cat headed for the target.

There was a great interest in Matthias' Solar Balloon, so we tried to put it up after the competition flight on Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately, the wind was yet too strong, and the start had to be aborted.

On Saturday evening, as every year, the night glow took place at the children's hospital at Tannheim. Karsten Knechtel's Heart and Frank Schnelle's Fire Bunny enjoyed great sympathy among the children.

On Sunday morning, we changed balloons: Matthias was allowed to fly Martin Kaiser's fox and to lead the fox chase.

With a delay of three minutes on the fox, the other balloons took to the morning sky.

Hovering closely above ground, the fox tried to escape the other balloons...

...but they stayed closely on track.

Thus, many of the pilots landed closely to the fox and gained good points.

The winners of the 22nd Model Balloon Meeting at Brigachtal were very international (from right to left): Ben Schaack (Luxemburg), Roger Wilhelm (Germany), Bernard Barillon (France), Sidney Servin (Belgium) and Jan Beckmann (Germany).

The ranking of the 22nd Model Balloon Meeting at Brigachtal:


rank
ballon
pilot
points
1
Chio Chips
Ben Schaack
4175,0
2
D-MAREN
Roger Wilhelm
4158,5
3
F-6311
Bernard Barillon
3875,5
4
Viking
Sidney Servin
3807,0
5
Dinkelacker
Jan Beckmann
3735,5
6
Frederic Bidault
3670,0
7
ICKLE GIGLE
Innes Worsmann
3608,0
8
Fabio Taroni
3453,0
9
Stefano Scolari
3417,5
10
Patrick & Mathieu Dekock
3035,5
11
D-ONILS
Nils Wilhelm
3022,0
12
D-OWMS / Cat
Werner Schlegel
2965,0
13
Tom Buekers
2927,5
14
Warsteiner
Rainer Stiller
2811,0
15
OO-BOE-tje
Stijn De Wulf
2760,0
16
Penguin / Fox
Matthias Schlegel
2485,0
17
Snowman
Paul Lemmens
2297,0
18
D-OABS / Sheep
Bastian Schwarz
2258,0
19
Hausmann Team 2
2220,0
20
Crocodile
Michael Gminder
2187,5
21
Let'z Fätz
Raini Vogler
2177,5
22
D-OKID
Sebastian Storch
2012,5
23
Robert Bosch Stiftung
Benedikt Munz
1960,0
24
Lößnitztalschänke
Sophie Knechtel
1945,0
25
D-OHEXE
Susanne Wilhelm
1900,0
26
Kieselbronn
Jan Gloß
1771,0
27
Flamingo
Andy Booth
1530,0
28
multicoloured
Wolfgang Leibfritz
1500,0
29
Peter Waßmann
1485,0
30
Bert Broers 2
1480,0
31
Gosau Junior
Jakob Kaiser
1470,0
32
Mike Woodcock
1465,0
33
Yves Gobin
1455,0
34
multicoloured
Riccardo Giambrone
1440,0
35
SIPA
Herve & Patricia Lemaire
1405,0
36
Wuppertal
Hausmann Team 1
1350,0
37
Heart
Karsten Knechtel
1250,0
38
Stuttgart
Götz Brachert
1230,0
39
multicoloured
Miriam & Christian Dehnert
1190,0
40
Garten Moser
Eberhardt Leibfritz
1115,0
41
Ladybug
Jupp Hein
1110,0
42
Jean Bernard Moreau
1010,0
43
Gardener Balloon
Michael Bölling
750,0
44
SKY / SUN
Klaus-Dieter Jahnke
750,0
45
David Thomas
750,0
46
multicoloured
Matthias Leister
750,0
47
The Face
Michael Kampmann
750,0
48
multicoloured
Stefan Rupp
500,0
49
Antenne Bayern
Martin Kaiser
500,0
50
DoDo
Richard Alt
500,0
51
Ottiballon
Olaf Schneider
500,0
52
Mouse
Bernd Schwab
500,0
53
Marcel Prevotat
500,0
54
Panda
Andreas Schmiauke
250,0
55
Hopper
Sebastian Bölling
250,0
56
Andre Schulz
250,0
57
multicoloured
Fernand Schaack
250,0
58
Elephant
Martin Eutermoser
250,0
59
Fire Bunny
Frank Schnelle
250,0
60
Bert Broers 1
0,0

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