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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.
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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
Hot-air balloon being deflated by lowering the parachute top (parachute valve) from...
© Micha Fleuren/Shutterstock.com
hot-air balloon
Basic components of a hot-air balloon.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
first manned balloon ascent
French aeronauts Jacques-Alexandre-César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert made the first...
Photos.com/Thinkstock
Montgolfier balloon
Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, marquis d'Arlandes, ascending...
© Photos.com/Jupiterimages
weather balloon
A weather balloon being released at a weather station at the South Pole.
NOAA
hot-air balloon
A hot-air balloon making its ascent during a balloon festival in Taos, New Mexico....
© Jeff Banke/Shutterstock.com
hot-air balloons
Colourful hot-air balloons soaring above Albuquerque, N.M.
© Americanspirit/Dreamstime.com
1965 U.S. National Championship balloon races
Hot-air balloons in the 1965 U.S. National Championship balloon races at Reno, Nevada.
Jim Larsen
hot-air balloon propane burners
By using propane burners, a balloonist can heat the air in a hot-air balloon and...
© Sue C./Shutterstock.com
Piccard balloon
Ascent of a Piccard balloon
UPI/Bettmann Archive
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
balloon flight: circumnavigation
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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