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1983 - 27th Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett

Starting Point: Place de la Concorde, Paris, France July 1, 1983

The story

   

Pilots Name

Co-Pilots Name

       
Rank Country Last First Last First BalloonName LandingPlace Distance km Time

1

POL

Makne

Stefan

Cieslak

Ireneuz

Polonez

Regensburg/Germany

690

36

2

USA

Stellas

Dean

Snow

Robert

Rosie O'Grady

Öhringen/Germany

525.4

.

3

SUI

Gross

Rolf

Peterka

Peter

Circus Knie

Sarreguemines/France

347.2

.

4

USA

Rice

Bernard

Penney

Robert C.

Old Glory

Nancy/France

278

.

5

FRA

Forest

Xavier

Mareuil

Gilles de

.

Verdun/France

222.5

.

6

FRA

Crombez

Jean M.

. . .

St.Memehuld/France

171.1

.

7

GER

Schellhove

Franz-Josef

Sjuts

Helma

D-Clouth IX

Epernay/France

118.4

.

8

NET

Boesman

Nini

Visscher

Gerrit

PH-DOM

Orly/France

69.4

.

9

JAP

Ichyoshi

Saburo

Takamoto

Hiro

.

Doue/France

60.9

.

10

GBR

Harris

Jonathan

Bosanquet

Nick

.

Laudray/France

58

.

11

GER

Maes

Jojo

Blenk

Gottlieb

D-MAN

Gagny/France

17

2:09


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