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Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Hot-air balloon being deflated Labeled diagram of a hot air balloon showing key components: the colorful envelope with gores, parachute valve at the top, skirt at the base, burners and wind guard above the woven basket where passengers ride. The first manned balloon ascent Montgolfier balloon A person stands on a platform beside a metal building at the South Pole Meteorological station, releasing a large weather balloon into the sky. Hot-air balloon Hot-air balloons 1965 U.S. National Championship balloon races A hot-air balloon's propane burners
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The element helium
The many uses for helium, but are we running out of it?
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View the picturesque landscape of New Zealand's Southern Alps in a hot-air balloon
Learn about hot-air ballooning in the Southern Alps of New Zealand's South Island.
Video: © Fun Travel TV (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
Balloons flying over the Rio Grande in the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta,...
Ron Behrmann
Hot-air balloon being deflated
The balloon is deflated by lowering the parachute top (parachute valve) from the...
© Micha Fleuren/Shutterstock.com
Hot-air balloon
Basic components of a hot-air balloon.
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The first manned balloon ascent
French aeronauts Jacques-Alexandre-César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert made the first...
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Montgolfier balloon
Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, marquis d'Arlandes, ascending...
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A weather balloon being released at a weather station at the South Pole.
Such balloons are useful for gathering atmospheric information.
NOAA
Hot-air balloon
A hot-air balloon making its ascent during a balloon festival in Taos, New Mexico....
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Hot-air balloons
Colorful hot-air balloons soaring above Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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1965 U.S. National Championship balloon races
Hot-air balloons in the 1965 U.S. National Championship balloon races at Reno, Nevada.
Jim Larsen
A hot-air balloon's propane burners
By using propane burners, a balloonist can heat the air in a hot-air balloon and...
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Piccard balloon
Ascent of a Piccard balloon
UPI/Bettmann Archive
The first successful aerial crossing of the English Channel
On January 7, 1785, French balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American balloonist...
Rischgitz—Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Circumnavigation via balloon
Balloonists Bertrand Piccard (left) and Brian Jones (right) after their circumnavigation...
Breitling SA
Illustration showing typical performances by aerial balloonists.
Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital. id. cph 3g10308)
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