Touchdown in Sherkin

IT isn’t because he is selling his Sherkin Island home that Steven Hayes is full of hot air. It’s his stock in trade.

Steven was part of the crew behind the successful Breitling Orbiter Round the World Hot Air Balloon trek back in 1999.

He worked on the novel pressurised carbon fibre cab and kerosene burners which propelled the two-man crew - Bertram Piccard and Brian Jones - to a successful circumnavigation of the globe, at 40,000 feet, from Chateau d’Oex in Switzerland to a successful touch-down in Egypt 22 days later.