On September 25, 2010 twenty teams from ten countries around the world made a start in the 54th Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race. Taking off at dusk from a site near Bristol, the team which flies the furthest distance from the start point wins the race.
We wish good luck to all and especially to members of the BSBRUN project:  Markus Pieper, Leonid  Tyukhtyaev and Stanislaw Fuodorov.

A brave flying squadron from Israel Aero Club consisted of four aircrafts visited Georgia this July.  For the first time foreign tourists came to our county by their own planes. This is a good start for a new way of learning Georgia.  We expect 25 aircrafts from Israel, Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine next year.

On February 28, 2010, a Georgian-Ukrainian team completed its first test flight as a part of the preparation program for the Black Sea Balloon Run.
The team commenced their flight on Kubicek BB42Z balloon in the region of Ulyanovka (Ukraine) in the direction of Kiev. The flight duration was 10 hours 29 minutes. The distance covered – 124.5 km. Maximum altitude - 4613 meters.
This flight set one national Ukrainian altitude record and two new national Georgian records - distance and time in the air.