altitude
I work at the London ATC Centre and today we worked a balloon making a record attempt. The balloon went up to about 31,000ft over the Fens. Was a record broken? Have any photos been published on the i...
In a few words manoevering is achieved by varying altitude.
The rotation of the earth produces a phenonomen called the Corealus <sp> effect, in the northern hemisphere the wind will veer wit...
Doesn't the POH for the balloon state the minimum altitude to apply eat?
... What model balloon? Where did you launch from and land? How many tanks? Number of people flying? Duration? Altitude?...
...ssappear very quickly on this group. or has no one anything to add.
Just heard about an 8 that broke an altitude record.
Is everone too busy out ballooning to be on the computer. That is not t...
...ly Montgolfier balloons. You can certainly give them credit for knowledge of the winds. Imagine maintaining altitude and, at the same time, positioning the craft to apply sufficient leverage to the pr...
... right. In addition, dropping parachutists is much the same, in that the proper procedure is to gain proper altitude, then start a slight decent before dropping them over the side. The weight lost giv...
...#039;. It is done hundreds of times a year, both by sport balloonists and by government agencies doing high altitude research. It's an unfortunate fact that the Virgin team has had more than thei...
I admit it, I'm a total newbie, having only had one ride in a hot air balloon. I'm a paraglider pilot. And I suspect this has been discussed and discarded many times as yet another crackpot ...
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* You need too much propane/kerosine * You have to stay at low alltitude * Since you have to stay at low altitude, you're 100 % sure you'll have bad weather * Wind speed / wind directions...
...e if it is as crazy as it sounds.
Anyway I'm officially jealous. I can't even imagine reaching such high altitudes with an hot air balloon let alone jumping from one. ...
...the upper is a circular analogue digital showing V.S.I. up and down, the lower is a digital display showing altitude. It has a 'Velcro' strap with which to connect it to the frame of whateve...
This may be calculated. (This formula is only for balloons using hotair. Not other gases)
When making the model for the Hot-Air balloon simulation (http://www.powersim.no/WebSims/Hotair), I got th...
...ed another aspect of airships.
Will briefed his team's implementation plan for a sensor package on High Altitude Airships for battlefield recon and surveillance
apparently they can have impo...
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