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Preperations for Worlds underway

3 July 2018

Preparations for World Championships are well underway. The team are all getting their gear ready to send over to Austria and dealing with all the logistics required for competing at events overseas.

Team Scaife are headed to Europe this week. Matt and Nicola will be competing at various events leading up to the World Championships, including the POST Luxembourg Balloon Trophy and the Women’s World Championships in Poland.


The Aussie Team for the Worlds

5 April 2018

The 23rd FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championships are happening in Groß-Siegharts, Austria, in mid-August. The second round of pilot invites came out this week and Australia received an extra slot. So we now have 4 pilots registered for the Australian Team: Nicola Scaife, Matthew Scaife, Sean Kavanagh and Andrew Robertson. We will be keeping everyone posted on the team's preparations over the next few months.

You can check out the official Worlds website here: http://balloonworlds2018.at/home-eng/


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