Congratulations to Swiss pilots Stefan & Heinz Wälchli on making an amazing night flight.
We are pleased to announce that Stefan and Heinz recently made a winter night flight of nearly 15 hours. They made this tremendous flight using the Aconcagua Ultramagic N-180 specially produced by Ultramagic out of AEROFABRIX® insulated fabric. This is the same balloon that earlier in the year was flown by Josep Lladó and Uwe Schneider over the Aconcagua Mountain in the Andes.
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Congratulation Stefan and Heinz from the World Wide Ultramagic Team on a fantastic achievement. |
| Takeoff (Location/Date/Time): | Bern (Switzerland) / 19.11.2010 / 15:52 UTC |
| Takeoff (Location/Date/Time): | Augsburg (Germany) / 20.11.2010 / 06:32 UTC |
| Duration (Total/Flight): | 14:40h |
| Crew: | 2 pilots, Stefan & Heinz Wälchli (Switzerland) |
| Envelope: | Ultramagic N-180 EcoMagic Aconcagua 5100 m³ |
| Burner: | Ultramagic BMK-050 Powerplus Maxi Double |
| Cylinders on board: | 4 x 40 kg + 6 x 30 kg |
| Takeoff Mass (Propane Mass): | 1232 kg (340 kg) |
| Landing Mass (Propane Mass): | 956 kg (64 kg) |
| Actual consumption: | 18.4 kg/h |
| Takeoff elevation: | 445 m AMSL |
| Landing elevation: | 481 m AMSL |
| Maximum flight altitude: | 3277 m AMSL |
| Lineal distance covered: | 302 km |
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| EC-LDV inflated with HB-QOK | |
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| Heinz | Stefan |
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| Night! |
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| Track | Altimeter and vario record |
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