balloon flight
Buoyant air travel
Balloon flight is travel through the air in a basket or gondola suspended beneath a large bag filled with heated air or a lighter-than-air gas.
The first human balloon flights occurred in 18th-century France, making this the oldest form of aviation.
Today balloon flight exists mainly as recreation and sport, with hot air balloons carrying tourists over scenic landscapes or competing in distance and altitude events.
We booked a balloon flight over wine country for our anniversary.
- burnerHeat-producing device component
- Montgolfier brothersInvented hot-air ballooning
- liftMechanism for vertical transport
- floating sensationSense of being buoyed
- ballastShip stability material
wind · envelope · lighter than air · scientific research · aviation pioneers · buoyancy · gondola · thermodynamics · sky · meteorology · float · hot air · aerial photography · aerodynamics · silence · tethered · soft landing · bird's eye view
- balloonslatex balloons, hydrogen balloons, foil balloons, helium balloons, mylar balloons
- High Altitudealtitude sickness, thin air, hypoxia, oxygen deprivation, acclimatization
- aerostatsaerostat, airships, blimp, balloons, zeppelin
- wind sportswindsurfing, windsurfer, kitesurfing, kiteboarding, kiteboarder
balloon flightsupersonic travel
Flight exceeding sound's speed
supersonic flight · high-speed rail · rocket launch · bullet train · racing