Well done!
Goodwill is based not only on quality of the products and services but also on especial successes. Kubicek Balloons could be proud of series of special-shape balloons, especially St. Gallen Cathedral. We have considerable souccesses in altitude records. White Kubicek-demo balloon have won World Championship. One older BB Balloon was flown over both North and South Pole. And we could go on...
1000 hours. Great story of Primagaz balloon
It was a great success of Kubicek balloon and mostly of Kubicek polyester balloon fabric, when Primagaz balloon achieved 1001 flight hours in last days, after it has passed the annual inspection at 962 hours some time before.
World record with AV 1
Augur team claimed to establish a new world record in flight duration with our older airship AV 1. The result is 6:04 hours, so that is almost one hour more than the last record, more than 12 years old. At the moment of take-off was the temperature on arctic -33°C.
More details in press release (in Russian only).
No comments needed:
From: FAI Secretariat [mailto:info@fai.org]
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 4:00 PM
To: NAC, Records FAI; CIA, Information
Subject: [cia-info-l] New Airship World Records - 03.06.2004
FAI has ratified the following Class B (Airships) records :
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Claim numbers : 8731 and 9503 to 9508
Size categories BX-04 through BX-10 (Hot-air airships : from 1 600 to
100 000 m3 and above)
General Category
Type of records : Duration
Course/location : Dmitrov (Russia)
Performance : 6 h 1 min
Pilot : Nikolay GALKIN (Russia)
Airship : Kubicek AV-1
Date : 20.02.2004
Previous records : 5h 6mn 42s (25.01.1992 - Guy MOYANO, Luxemburg)
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FAI congratulates the pilot on his splendid achievement.
Altitude record attempt with BB45!
One of our older balloons, Reebok, s/n 52, built in 1996 with Benoit Simeons as a pilot reached on 20th January 2003 in Ch�teau d'Oex Belgian national record up to 9369 m. Congratulation, Benoit!
More details on Benoit's pages.
St. Gallen Cathedral
- the most complicated special shape built at Kubicek Balloons.
Airborn on 1st December 2002.
Volume: 3100 m3.
Height of the towers: 25,6 m, base dimensions: 25,4 x 10,9 m.
Will fly in Switzerland, project of Mr. Martin Zimmermann in cooperation with our representative Patrik Schmidle.
For more info see press release. [pdf document 225 kB]
[mpeg video 1.77 MB]
Record again with Kubicek Balloon - Femine this time!
Irene Hohmann supported by Flaggl ballooning with Apfelwirt balloon which was built last year for our Austrian representative Peter Flaggl reached new German record in all three femine categories!
Very interesting type of basket used for this successful attempt was designed in Germany by FESTO (Prof. Axel Thallemer).
| Performance: | Duration: | 05:47 h | (previous: 05:16) |
| Distance: | 321,3 km | (279,1 km) | |
| Height: | 3.893 m | (not set before) |
Balloon: Apfelwirt BB37 (3700 m3), category AX9
Course/location: Bad Mitterndorf, Austria - Toponar (Hungary)
Date: 29. January 2002
Kubicek Balloon on South Pole
Can you imagine the celebration of the New Millennium on the South Pole without a Kubicek hot-air balloon?
The violet&white 8-gore experimental balloon, similar to BB12, is probably the only balloon that has flown over both the North and the South Pole. Pilot: Mr. Trifonov.
Kubicek World's Winning Balloon System
American pilot Bill Arras won with Kubicek balloon "White Light" the World Championship 1999 in Bad Waltersdorf.
We have prepared for you the photo report of this important event.
World Altitude Record!
The great success of Kubicek's balloon. The hot-air balloon "BP – Flower Power" (or also Kubicek BB30), piloted by a double world champion Joschi Starkbaum, flought this summer up to the height of 15.360 m and broke the 15 years old world height record and established the new one.
The succeessful attempt started at 21st July 1998 in Austrian Stolzalpe bei Murau and finished happily after 2 hours in 50 km distant Knittelfeld.
The next day we welcome the hero and his balloon in Brno at Kubicek's Factory. There they're interviewed for radio and TV (Mr. Starkbaum) and were subjected to the detailed technical analysis (balloon BP).
By this it was discovered that the extreme temperature in the envelope (probably over 200°C - for example: the temperature outside the balloon was -55°C) has no influence on the textile of the balloon. There was no difference between the new and BP's material.
