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A classic brain teaser.

First circumnavigation of the world by balloon -March 1st to March 21st, 1999. Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones flew for 45,755km in 19 days, 21 hours and 55 minutes, thus achieving the longest flight in the history of aviation . bbml.org.uk/first-circumna…

It's almost Spring, 🌱🌷🪻the daffodils are out and it will soon be flying season. 🎉🎉🎉 Have you read the story of Daffodil and Golden Eagle, that great ballooning adventure across the Sahara in 1972? @cameronballoons Click below for more info👇 bbml.org.uk/daffodil-golde…

Love is in the air! Happy St Valentine's Day. 💕 Read our little ❤️ story below. Did you propose in a balloon or fly someone who did? Share your story with us. We would love to hear it. @robayly #ValentinesDay #LeapYear bbml.org.uk/happy-st-valen…

4 February 1902. First balloon flight in Antarctica Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton ascended to 800 ft. in a tethered hydrogen balloon to take the first Antarctic aerial photographs. Read the story ... bbml.org.uk/scott-shacklet…

Happy #NationalPuzzleDay. Here's a tiny selection of the many we have in our collection. An interesting fact: 🙂 Mapmaker John Spilsbury created the first ever jigsaw🧩👏👏. Pop over to our website to see what we do. Happy puzzling! bbml.org.uk

Tonight is Burns Night and people around the world, especially Scots, will celebrate the life of 18th century poet Robert "Rabbie" Burns with a meal of peppery haggis, neeps and tatties, with a wee dram of whisky. We shall continue to look after G-PIPY. bbml.org.uk/envelopes/g-pi…

7 January 1785 - the day Jean Pierre Blanchard and Dr. John Jeffries became the first aeronauts to fly across the English Channel . Jefferies describes flying perilously close to the sea and jettisoned ballast including their trousers! Read more bit.ly/blanchardballo…

Ryan O'Neal has died and the media forgot to mention his starring role where he played the baddie landing a balloon on top of the Citibank skyscraper to rob it. We have the balloon in the museum flown by our President as O'Neal's double. Read the story... bbml.org.uk/green-ice/

@BoffinBill The car is a Bullnose Morris.

Posted a new photo-ID of the British R-101 over Bedford, UK: welweb.org/ThenandNow/R-1…

Anybody flying balloons in the early seventies will be familiar with G-AZIP, the flagship of The Dante Balloon Group which was formed on 5 December 1971 and can proudly call itself the oldest balloon group still active. #ballooning bbml.org.uk/dante-balloon-…

Just ten days after the first hot air balloon flight in 1783 the first gas balloon flight took place and it was the gas balloon which kept the sport of ballooning alive until the late the modern era of hot air balloons in the late 1950s. Read more bbml.org.uk/first-gas-ball…

29 November 1970 - a day to remember for Lt. Terry Adams who cooked up a scheme to fly Bristol Belle from the deck of aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal! After landing on the island of Malta he had 4,000 flight covers franked . Rare collector's item! bbml.org.uk/bristol-belle-…

All over the world, 21st November is the day balloonists celebrate the anniversary of the first free flight with human beings. Read more .... bbml.org.uk/today-is-montg… @balloon_museum

We at the #BritishBalloonMuseumandLibrary are thrilled to have received a grant from @HeritageFundUK to fund the archiving work and new website. It's #ThanksToYou the #NationalLottery players who made it all possible 🫰🙂

@hfxjrcc @RCAF_ARC

Both persons were picked up without injury and flown to @RCAF_ARC 9 Wing Gander.

Members of #RCAF 103 #SAR Sqn came to the aid of two balloonists today after they declared an emergency in the early morning.  A Cormorant helicopter arrived while the balloon was still in flight— finally landing at first light.

Mike and Deborah Scholes 19 hours after launching their attempt to fly the Atlantic. Safe landing in Newfoundland after technical issue with balloon meant unwise to continue 2000 more miles across the ocean.

@milmodelscene @mbarnesn16 @NewsUKArchives @NewsUKLicensing @RivetsAndPins @RobertGlenniePT @MilesRamiles The four Bullnose Morris Cowleys have no front wheel brakes and single pane windscreens so made C1923.

@mbarnesn16 @NewsUKArchives @NewsUKLicensing @RivetsAndPins @RobertGlenniePT @MilesRamiles Super photo Mark, never seen those before. I am by no means certain, but I think those nearest the camera look like Bullnose Morris car conversions🤔

Totally bonkers "improvised armoured cars" of the Inns of Court Regt at Petworth Park Aug 1935. DS snapper uncredited. 1/ @NewsUKArchives @NewsUKLicensing @RivetsAndPins @RobertGlenniePT @milmodelscene @MilesRamiles

In January Zara Rutherford set a world record by becoming the youngest person, at 19, to fly around the world in an ultralight plane. The record was beaten yesterday by her brother Mack who is 17. Zara tells @Sarah_Montague how it feels to have the title stolen by her brother.