Balloons (aircraft) Balloons (aircraft) The Adam Matthews Balloon Festival the fifth largest hot air balloon festival in the United States, and the largest in the state of Kentucky. It is held annually in late September at Bowman Field Airport in Louisville, Kentucky. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adam Matthews Balloon Festival"
Each and every year, dozens of colorful balloons take to the skies of Decatur, AL's Point Mallard Park, for the Alabama Jubilee Hot-Air Balloon Classic over the Memorial Day holiday weekend (May 28-29). ...more on Wikipedia about "Alabama Jubilee Hot Air Balloon Classic"
The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is a massive gathering of balloonists from around the world, occurring in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the first week of October. The event, the largest of its kind in the world, lasts nine days and includes a fleet of nearly 750 hot air balloons with pilots from throughout the United States and the world. The balloon fiesta began as a small gathering of 13 balloons in 1972, but has grown each year since and today is the largest balloon convention in the world. On any given day, up to 100,000 spectators may be on the launch field where they are provided the rare opportunity to observe inflation and take off procedures. Countless more people gather at landing sites all over the city to watch incoming balloons. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta"
Balloons are a type of lighter than air aircraft that remain aloft due to their buoyancy. Balloons travel by moving with the wind. They are distinct from airships which are buoyant aircraft which can be propelled through the air in a controlled manner. They are also distinct from aerostats which are balloons that are moored to the ground rather than free flying. ...more on Wikipedia about "Balloon (aircraft)"
A barrage balloon is a large balloon used as a defense against aircraft. The balloon is attached to the ground with metal cables, which are intended to ensnare the aircraft, notably its propellers. Some versions carried small explosive charges that would be pulled up against the aircraft to ensure its destruction. Barrage balloons were only really successful for low-flying aircraft, the weight of a longer cable making them impractical for higher altitudes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barrage balloon"
The BBC Balloon launched at 7.05 am on Saturday, October 4 1997. It replaced the computer generated spinning globe which had been used as the main ident on BBC One since 1991. It launched the same day as the BBC rebranded, and thus the new idents also carried the new BBC logo, changing its name from BBC1 to BBC One. ...more on Wikipedia about "BBC One Balloon Idents"
The Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is held during August in Bristol, United Kingdom. Teams from all over the UK and other parts of the world bring their hot air balloons to the site and participate in mass ascents where as many as 100 balloons may launch at a time. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bristol International Balloon Fiesta" Tell your opinion about www.shortopedia.com
A Cloudhopper is a small one-person hot air balloon that is flown without a gondola. While the term Cloudhopper was originally the name for a one-man balloon developed by Dick Wirth and Per Lindstrand at Colt Balloons in the late 1970s, the term is now used generically to refer to a small, basketless hot air balloon. Most Cloudhoppers have envelopes that range in size from 14,000 to 35,000 cubic feet and have an autonomy or maximum flight duration of 1 to 1.5 hours. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cloudhopper"
Cluster ballooning is an uncommon form of ballooning whereby a single balloonist is attached by a harness to a cluster of relatively small helium-inflated rubber balloons. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cluster ballooning"
Double Eagle II, piloted by Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson, and Larry Newman, became the first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it landed 17 August 1978 in Miserey near Paris, 137 hours 6 minutes after leaving Presque Isle, Maine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Double Eagle II"
The Enterprise was a hot air balloon used by the Union Army to spot oncoming troops during the American Civil War. It was one of 6 hot air balloons used by the Union Army in this way. The project was supervised by ballooning enthusiast and inventor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe. The Enterprise was the first balloon Lowe used during the war when he demonstrated it for President Abraham Lincoln in the yard of the White House. It was the Enterprise that Lowe was flying when he landed in hostile territory and was taken prisoner. ...more on Wikipedia about "Enterprise (balloon)"
The term "fire balloon" can mean a small unmanned hot air balloon for festivities; this is also called a sky lantern. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fire balloon"
A gas balloon (also called a Charlier balloon for its inventor) is any balloon that stays aloft due to being filled with a gas less dense than air (such as helium or hydrogen. The first gas balloon made its flight in August 1789. It carried no passengers or cargo, and popped when it reached too high an altitude. Later that same year, a manned flight was made shortly after the first ascension in a hot-air balloon (and indeed the first recorded ascension by man in any flying device). ...more on Wikipedia about "Gas balloon"
High altitude balloons are balloons, usually filled with helium, that are released into the upper atmosphere, generally reaching between 60,000 and 120,000 feet. ...more on Wikipedia about "High altitude balloon"
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Hot air balloons are the oldest successful human flight technology, dating back to the Montgolfier brothers' invention in Annonay, France in 1783. The first flight carrying humans was made on November 21, 1783, in Paris by Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes. Balloons that can be propelled through the air rather than just being carried along by the wind are known as airships. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hot air balloon"
Hot air balloon festivals are held annually throughout the year, and give ...more on Wikipedia about "Hot air balloon festivals"
Lawrence Richard Walters, nicknamed Lawnchair Larry or the Lawn Chair Pilot, (b. April 19, 1949, d. October 6, 1993) took flight on July 2, 1982 in a homemade aircraft, dubbed Inspiration I, that he had fashioned out of a Sears patio chair and 45 helium-filled weather balloons. He rose to an altitude of 16,000 feet (3 miles) and floated from his point of origin in San Pedro, California into federal airspace near Long Beach airport. Although the account of his flight was widely reported in newspapers, it is often mistaken as an urban legend. Walters is one of the few Darwin Award contenders that lived to tell the tale. ...more on Wikipedia about "Larry Walters"
The National Scientific Balloon Facilty (NSBF) (established ...more on Wikipedia about "National Scientific Balloon Facility"
The Northampton Balloon Festival is an annual event held in the English town of Northampton, in the Racecourse park. Managed by the Borough Council, it's held over a Friday, Saturday and Sunday in mid-August. The main features of the festival are the twice-daily hot air balloon lifts, but other attractions include trade stalls, live music and arena entertainment. ...more on Wikipedia about "Northampton Balloon Festival"
Operation Outward was the name given to the British World War II programme to attack Germany by means of free-flying balloons. ...more on Wikipedia about "Operation Outward"
QinetiQ 1 is a balloon designed to set a new manned balloon world altitude record of around 40 km (25 miles, 132,000 feet). The balloon is named after the main sponsors, QinetiQ (formerly part of DERA, the British Defence Evaluation and Research Agency). ...more on Wikipedia about "QinetiQ 1"
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Skyhook ballons were balloons developed Otto C. Winzen and used by the United States Navy Office of Naval Research in the late 1940s and in the 1950s for atmospheric research, especially for constant-level meteorological observations at very high altitudes. Instruments like the Cerenkov detector were first used on skyhook balloons. ...more on Wikipedia about "Skyhook balloon"
(Superpressure balloons) A style of balloon where the pressure of lifting gas ...more on Wikipedia about "Superpressure balloons"
A tethered aerostat is an aerostat, such as a balloon. The balloon has a cable or rope which connects it to a ...more on Wikipedia about "Tethered aerostat"
A weather balloon is a balloon which carries instruments aloft to send back information on atmospheric pressure, temperature, and humidity by means of a small, expendable measuring device called a radiosonde. To obtain wind data, they can be tracked by radar, radio direction finding, or navigation systems (such as the satellite based Global Positioning System). ...more on Wikipedia about "Weather balloon" Are you ready for www.shortopedia.com? Balloons_(aircraft)
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