Official Website of the Northampton Balloon Festival

With the possibility of good weather approaching this weekend, local Pilot Chris Freeman along with fellow Pilot Jamie Edwards will take to the sky this Saturday morning (weather permitting) from the Launch site of the Northampton Balloon Festival at Billing Aquadrome.

This weekend marks exactly three months to the day until the event kicks off on Friday 19th August.

Live updates from the flight will be posted on Chris’ twitter account @freeman_chris, follow and find out exactly what goes on in a Balloon when it leaves the ground!

With the ballooning season now in full swing and with 144 Days until the 2011 Northampton Balloon Festival, the Chiltern Region Balloon and Airship Club flew from the launch site of the Northampton Balloon Festival on Sunday 27th March.

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The Northampton Balloon Festival is located at Billing Aquadrome (by the side of the A45 to the East of Northampton Town Centre) – just follow the yellow signs.

Day visitors on foot

Adults £5

Children £2.50

Cars – £15.00 per day, to include passengers and secure parking.

Motorbikes – £10.00 per day to include passengers and all day secure parking.

For more information regarding camping and parking, please phone Billing Aquadrome on 01604 408181

We are pleased to announce that the balloonist application forms are now available to download. Places this year are to be restricted so please apply early. Closing date for balloon application forms and deposit – 1st July 2011.

Please click here to download the form

If you have any queries regarding the event or your application please contact

balloons@thenorthamptonballoonfestival.co.uk

Our new updated Northampton Balloon Festival website for 2011 has gone live today.

Keep an eye on the website over the coming months for balloonist application forms and for all the information you will need to know in the run up to the event.

After the sucess of the 2009 & 2010 events, Billing Aquadrome have confirmed they will be hosting the event for the Third year.

The 2011 Northampton Balloon Festival will follow the same format as previous years including Balloon Flights at 6am and 6pm on Friday,  Saturday and Sunday with the inclusion of a magical night glow on the Saturday Night at 9pm.

Tonights final flight went ahead with around 15 balloons taking to the skies of Northamptonshire.

Thanks to all that attended this year, we hope you enjoyed it.. We did!

Pictures from tonights flight online soon

The wind and rain disappeared this morning to allow the first flight of The Northampton Balloon Festival.

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Due to the wind, it wasn’t possible to get the balloons out this evening, however the balloons did a “Wall of Fire” by lining up and burning in time to the music with just the baskets.

Pictures to follow soon..

Unfortunatley due to high winds and rain there is no flying this evening.

There is a pilots briefing at 20:30 for tonights planned balloon glow.