balloon altitude
1Notable balloon altitude records — ▪ Table Notable balloon altitude records date balloonists altitude April 24, 1804 Joseph Louis Gay Lussac and Jean Baptiste Biot (France) 3,977 metres (2.5 miles) Sept. 19, 1804 Joseph Louis Gay Lussac 7,016 metres (4.4 miles) Sept. 5, 1862 James …
2balloon flight — ▪ aviation Introduction passage through the air of a balloon that contains a buoyant gas, such as helium or heated air, for which reason it is also known as lighter than air free flight. Unmanned balloons have been used to carry meteorological… …
3balloon sickness — altitude sickness occurring during balloon ascents …
4balloon astronomy — balloon astronomy, the use of high altitude balloons equipped with telescopes to obtain photographs of the sun, planets, or other heavenly bodies, and to gather other astronomical data …
5Balloon (aircraft) — Ballooning redirects here. For the behavior of spiders and other arthropods, see Ballooning (spider). Not to be confused with Airship or Blimp. Balloon …
6balloon — balloonlike, adj. /beuh loohn /, n. 1. a bag made of thin rubber or other light material, usually brightly colored, inflated with air or with some lighter than air gas and used as a children s plaything or as a decoration. 2. a bag made of a… …
7balloon — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. aerostat, blimp; free, sounding, kite, pilot, or dirigible balloon; fire balloon, montgolfier. See aviation. v. i. swell. See convexity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. dirigible, aircraft, airship, weather… …
8Balloon rocket — A balloon rocket is a balloon filled with air. Besides being simple toys, balloon rockets are a widely used teaching device to demonstrate physical principles and the functioning of a rocket. [http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/58269main Rockets.Guide.pdf… …
9High altitude balloon — BLAST high altitude balloon just before launch on June 12, 2005High altitude balloons are unmanned balloons, usually filled with helium, that are released into the upper atmosphere, generally reaching between 60,000 and 120,000 feet (18,000… …
10Skyhook balloon — The skyhook balloon launched in 1957 to photograph the sun Skyhook balloons were balloons developed by Otto C. Winzen and General Mills, Inc., and used by the United States Navy Office of Naval Research in the late 1940s and in the 1950s for… …
