Official NBF

The official twitter account for Northampton Balloon Festival.

[Official NBF @officialnbf]

@JustTweetGeorge @mjballooning I have seen some today from West Northants Council, who are supporting it. We are running an event in Doncaster this weekend, after that we will be doing more promotion of NBF.

[Official NBF @officialnbf]

@JustTweetGeorge @mjballooning Morning, apologies for the delay coming back to you. Yes, the dates are 16, 17, 18 August 2024 at the Racecourse in Northampton.

[Bristol Balloon Collectors @BristolBalloonC]

Tonights glow at Northampton Balloon Festival we had the BBC Globe and the FT Newspaper, conditions were quite breezy so the FT Newspaper had to be pulled down, but the Globe stayed up throughout the glow, thanks to Brad and Charlie for glowing the shapes for us. 🎈

[Official NBF @officialnbf]

@JustTweetGeorge @mjballooning The entry forms have been sent out to pilots. We will not know what is planning to attend until later in the year.

There are very few commercially operated special shapes flying these days, but who knows 🤞🏻😉

[Northampton Chron @ChronandEcho]

Here's when the Balloon Festival is making its return to the Racecourse 👇

https://t.co/BUpBNXyX2z

[Official NBF @officialnbf]

@ThePerkz_ Not this year, but we will have about 40 balloons on Northampton Racecourse this weekend, for Northampton Town Festival (flights and tethers are weather dependant). For further details please see the link below. Hope you can join us.

https://t.co/AE7Rovs6AS

[Official NBF @officialnbf]

@UK_Geocaching Unfortunately not this year.

[Official NBF @officialnbf]

**2020 Event Update: Northampton Balloon Festival is Taking A Break**

After 30 great years the Northampton Balloon Festival is taking a break.

The website will be updated when we have news. But keep your eyes peeled to see balloons in the sky over Northamptonshire!

[Official NBF @officialnbf]

If you would like to know more about flying a hot air balloon, have a look at this video

https://t.co/P1Sb0NPYhM

If you would like to get involved in ballooning contact the British Balloon and Airship Club @britishballoon https://t.co/k8l7ZSpQWb

[Billing Aquadrome @Bil_Aquadrome]

What an amazing weekend, here are some of our favourite pictures of the balloons!

#BillingsBigBonanza #Northampton #Views #HotAirBalloons

[Official NBF @officialnbf]

**SUNDAY EVENING WEATHER UPDATE** - Sadly, the winds have beaten us this evening and there will be no flying. Despite the challenging conditions, we managed to get balloons flying from the event on Friday morning, Saturday evening and Sunday morning, along with a glow last night.

[Exclusive Ballooning @XBallooning]

Our @RicohUK special shape cube is at the #Northampton #hotairballoon festival all weekend! We had an amazing night glow last night in the main arena and a flight this morning in the early hours! @BBCNorthampton @NorthamptonUK #festival

[Official NBF @officialnbf]

More balloons are taking off now

[Official NBF @officialnbf]

The first balloon has taken off 😊

[Official NBF @officialnbf]

**SUNDAY MORNING UPDATE** - We are optimistic that the conditions will be suitable to fly in the morning. But a final call will be made at 6am.

[Official NBF @officialnbf]

**SATURDAY EVENING UPDATE** - It is still very windy this evening, so there won't be a mass balloon launch. We do however have a couple of the more experienced pilots who may fly later in the evening if the wind drops more.

[Official NBF @officialnbf]

It is still very windy, but in the arena at the moment we have inflated one of the balloons.

We also have a number of Pilots around the arena who are happy to answer questions on ballooning and let you have a closer look at the basket

[Official NBF @officialnbf]

**Day 2** - A full programme of events can be found on our website. There will be balloonists in the field from 2pm onwards to speak with and we will try and get some balloons inflated if the weather conditions allow. https://t.co/HAhqX7hWR0

[Official NBF @officialnbf]

@squid_lemon Please keep an eye on our Facebook and Twitter page for latest updates.