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unusual facts about Hot air balloon



Bosinada

Some of the last known bosinade include La Balonada by Gaetano Crespi (1907), about a hot air balloon race, or Delagrange volerà! ("Delagrange will fly") on the flight experiments by Léon Delagrange.

Carolinda Witt

Carolinda Witt (born 29 March 1955 in Nairobi) is a globally known hot air balloon pilot and complementary health practitioner whose primary area of expertise is as a teacher of The Five Tibetans, a yoga methodology originally described by Peter Kelder in his book “The Eye Of Revelation”.

Chalmers Ballong Corps

Chalmers Ballong Corps (CBC) is a students' hot-air ballooning club at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Croydon Road Recreation Ground

The United Kingdom’s first manned airmail flight left from here in 1902, travelling to Calais by hot air balloon The event was held to celebrate the coronation of King Edward VII.

Deptford Township, New Jersey

Deptford was the site of the first hot air balloon landing in North America, gathering that distinction when Jean-Pierre Blanchard completed his flight to Deptford from Philadelphia in 1793.

Frankenstein Island

When a hot air balloon crashes on a remote and uncharted island, the four balloonists and their dog Melvin are captured by a pair of drunken old pirates who take them to the hilltop laboratory home of Dr. Frankenstein's modern-day descendant Sheila Frankenstein (Katherine Victor) who is carrying on the family tradition by turning shipwrecked sailors into pre-programmed bloodless, black-garbed zombies who must wear sunglasses to protect their weird white eyes from light.

Helena Spinacuta

In the spring of 1786, the couple performed in Lund and Malmö, were they released the first hot air balloons in Sweden, followed by a performance in Copenhagen.

Marvel Cave

On July 7, 1963 an underground altitude record was set by Don Piccard by flying a hot air balloon around the massive room.

Northam, Western Australia

Steve Fossett became the first person to fly around the world alone, non-stop, in a hot air balloon when he launched from Northam on 19 June 2002, and returned to Australia on 3 July, landing in Queensland.

Parc Monceau

In 1797, Parc Monceau was the site of the first silk parachute jump, when André-Jacques Garnerin jumped from a Montgolfier hot air balloon, landing in the park where a large crowd was gathered.

Parkmore Shopping Centre

Opening on 27 November 1973, the centre held extravagant opening celebrations, including Santa Claus arriving in the world's largest hot air balloon of the time, as well as a performance by John Farnham.

R. L. Drake Company

Amateur stations made up of Drake gear were used on a number of record-breaking hot air balloon flights, the RMS Queen Mary, and the Rutan Voyager.

Sky lantern

Frei Bartolomeu de Gusmão, using a large scale version of these lanterns, was the first man to fly a Hot air balloon in August 8, 1709, in the hall of the Casa da Índia in Lisbon, Portugal, long before the Montgolfier brothers.

Standon Green End

Standon Green End is most notable for being at the final landing point of Vincenzo Lunardi's historic first hot air balloon flight in 1784.

Tazaungdaing festival

In Shan State, particularly in Taunggyi, hot air balloons lit with candles, are released to celebrate the full moon day, similar to Yi Peng celebrations in Northern Thailand.

The Great Fetish

Marko joins a caravan and falls in with the philosopher Doctor Halran, a professor who is experimenting with a new hot air balloon.

Voyage to the Edge of the World

Footage is catch on board the expedition ship, the Calypso, but also at land (for example at Deception Island), underwater, over sea ice or from the air, by means of a hot air balloon and a helicopter.


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2013 Luxor hot air balloon crash

After news of the tragedy broke, Governor of Luxor Ezzat Saad banned hot air balloon flights in his jurisdiction until further notice.

Bristol Belle

In the summer of 1966, the team went to Dunstable Air Day and saw a number of attempts at a hot air balloon flight by other teams.

Following developments by Ed Yost in the United States, members of the Bristol Gliding Club decided to create their own hot air balloon.

Dan Danknick

Danknick appeared on an episode of the Discovery Channel show Monster Garage, where he and the other builders were tasked with transforming a Suzuki Samurai into a hot air balloon.

Gustavus Katterfelto

He claimed to have launched the first hot air balloon fifteen years before the Montgolfier brothers, and claimed to be the greatest natural philosopher since Isaac Newton.

Hallowe'en Party

As well as this, Mrs Oliver writes a book about her detective, Sven Hjerson who solves a murder in a hot-air balloon over Abyssinia.

Indiana State Fair

Other competitions also occur including art contests, a hot air balloon race, and a high school marching band contest on "Band Day".

James Wallace Black

On October 13, 1860, two years after the French photographer Nadar conducted his earliest experiments in balloon flight, Black made the first successful aerial photographs in the United States in collaboration with the balloon navigator Samuel Archer King on King's hot-air balloon, the Queen of the Air.

Lois January

Her most famous role, however, although she never achieved name recognition, is probably as the Emerald City manicurist in The Wizard of Oz who sings to Dorothy that "we can make a dimpled smile out of a frown" and, later in the same film, as the woman holding a cat which causes Toto to jump out of the hot air balloon just before it departs leaving Dorothy apparently stranded.

Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux

A student of Delorme and Gros, he designed a large number of medals, largely referring to public events, such as the death of Louis XV, the coronation of Louis XVI, the birth of the Dauphin, the invention of the hot air balloon by the Montgolfier brothers, the voyage of Lapeyrouse, the Federation of the Départements of France, the Abolition of Privileges, and Moreau's crossing of the Rhine in year VIII.