On the 12th of September Aerosaurus gave away two Hot Air Balloon Vouchers to Devon Air Ambulance for their annual charity ball. The aim of the event was to raise money and awareness for the local charity, who had just invested in a second air ambulance for the Devon area.

On the night the vouchers raised an impressive £160 for the local charity, money much needed. Aerosaurus would like to congratulate Devon Air Ambulance for the successful evening and thank Fran Carnell, who wrote a very nice thank you letter for us. If you fancy reading the letter they wrote to us then click here.

Aerosaurus is glad to help any charity, if you think we could help you then visit the Charity and Fundraising section of our website.

Although Aerosaurus primarily offers champagne hot air balloon flights over the West Country, we diversified on Saturday however, tethering our new private/exclusive balloon at a open day at the University College of St Mark and St John.

The event started at 10am and potential students, with their parents/friends, entered the university being greeted by ourselves. We then proceeded to keep the balloon inflated for a further 4 hours, whilst keeping it bound to the ground.

The day was a great success, with exceptional weather for this time of the year! Aerosaurus has now also been asked to fly out from the University, this time instead, with our other new balloon. We plan to do this on either the 17th, 21st or 23rd of October, depending on the weather conditions.

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A hot air balloon in the sky is a popular, beloved image for all. The amount of photos circulating the web shows this.

It is however a skill to capture the balloon on film, and tweak it to perfection. Such a skill was recently pointed out to us by a customer, Peter Webb. Peter had found images on Flickr showing our balloons being inflated in Salisbury. The photographer was called ‘F2′ and after uploading the images only yesterday, he’s had over 33 comments from the public viewing his photo’s and passing on messages of encouragement.

So a congratulations goes out to ‘F2′, which supposedly stands for Father of Two, and we thorougly recommend his site to our customers.

F2’s Flickr Site

Aerosaurus Balloons recently flew popular radio personality’s Karen Bosley and Stuart McGinley from Spire FM. The two presenters had an hour long champagne balloon ride on Friday morning and took to the skies above Wiltshire. The flight went from Salisbury, then landed in Castle Cary (30 miles away!).

Spire FM placed information and photo’s from the flight on their website. View their article by clicking here.

Having had a successful September we are pleased to say we’ve received countless thank you letters and positive comments regarding customer feedback. In return Aerosaurus would like to say thank you to all it’s customers and we’re glad you’ve all had a lovely experience with ourselves.

A special mention however goes to Lee Greatorex who placed an in depth report of his flight on Flickr, a online photo gallery. Lee flew from Sherbourne on Saturday the 20th of September and for customers wanting to have a look at his pictures, click here.