GEMAB: good news for balloon lovers

GEMAB: good news for balloon lovers

The 19th edition of the Grand Est Mondial Air Ballons will take place from Friday July 25 to Sunday August 03, 2025. The Lorraine-based company Groupe ABC will now preside over the event’s destiny. After event designer Philippe Buron Pilâtre announced the end of...
240 years since Pilâtre de Rozier made history

240 years since Pilâtre de Rozier made history

Paris, November 21, 1783, 11:00 a.m. Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, a native of Metz (Moselle), and the Marquis d’Arlandes took to the skies in a hot-air balloon, opening the way to human flight. On December 1, physicist Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers...
The last post

The last post

It’s no secret that the last and 18th edition of GEMAB will have no successor. We’re going to keep the website dedicated to the event so that it can live on, with its images, photos and texts, and serve as a reference. You can therefore continue to comment...
Time to review

Time to review

Once the event is over, it’s time to review. Whether they be financial, technical, aeronautical, commercial or other, they enable us to draw up a true map of the event and its performance. Over a period of three months, every aspect of the event was examined...
The pilot’s jacket in the hit parade

The pilot’s jacket in the hit parade

Since the 1990’s, the Pilâtre de Rozier organization has been offering pilots registered for the GEMAB a beautiful multi-pocket pilot jacket, embroidered on the back with the year’s visual and on the reverse side the words pilot and Pilâtre de Rozier...
News and fake news

News and fake news

Following the GEMAB withdrawal announcement by Philippe Buron Pilâtre and Aline Dufour, many comments have been made. But the saddest thing is the amount of false information circulating about the future, about potential buyers, about the event leaving for other...

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