1977 saw the 10th anniversary of the Dublin Ballooning Club, founded in 1967 to encourage the new sport of hot air ballooning in Ireland.

To celebrate, Maxwell Sweeney took a flight over the Co. Kildare countryside in the club's hot air balloon piloted by the club's Chief Flying Instructor, David Hooper. In the programme he talks to Balloon manufacturer Per Lindstrand, who owns Colting Balloons, a company building Hot Air Balloons in Tullamore, Co Offaly. (Per Lindstrand went on to build and pilot all of Richard Branson's world breaking Balloon flights).

He interviews other club members, including Colm O’Rourke, who is learning to fly a balloon and has just made his first solo flight. The attractions of the sport of ballooning are outlined by Club secretary, Madeleine O'Rourke. Airline pilots, Mike Alexander and Noel Lewis talk about weather and flying regulations as well as the competitive aspect of the sport. Joan Hooper talks about families and ballooning.

Produced and Presented by Maxwell Sweeney.

First broadcast 11th September 1977

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