A bit of Hot air !!
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Sat Apr 15, 2017 4:26 pmby Aviator 1
I thought publish something a little different. Not long ago was balloons over Waikato and now tonight is the night glow for Balloons over Wairarapa. The hot air balloon was the first successful aircraft in 1783 created by the Montgolfier brothers. The hot air balloon design has not changed a huge amount since then except balloons use LPG and not fire wood.
Re: A bit of Hot air !!
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Sat Apr 15, 2017 4:55 pmby Ian Warren
You do know there balloon caught fire and they were climbing all over it to put the little fire s out but they did succeed .. if you tied Andrew Little Johnny English and a few others you would get the same result.
Re: A bit of Hot air !!
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Sat Apr 15, 2017 9:38 pmby Aviator 1
I admit I don't recall seeing that information. I think the first flight was a duck, chicken and a goat and was successful.
Re: A bit of Hot air !!
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Sat Apr 15, 2017 9:43 pmby Fozzer
Aviator 1 wrote:I admit I don't recall seeing that information. I think the first flight was a duck, chicken and a goat and was successful.
I cooked them all for Sunday Dinner....
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Paul....Saturday Feeding Time again.....
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Re: A bit of Hot air !!
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Sat Apr 15, 2017 9:50 pmby Aviator 1
lol info I found on the web The brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier developed a hot air balloon in Annonay, Ardeche, France, and demonstrated it publicly on September 19, 1783, making an unmanned flight lasting 10 minutes. After experimenting with unmanned balloons and flights with animals, the first balloon flight with humans aboard, a tethered flight, performed on or around October 15, 1783, by Jean-Francois pilatre de Rozier who made at least one tethered flight from the yard of the Reveillon workshop in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Later that same day, Pilatre de Rozier became the second human to ascend into the air, reaching an altitude of 26 m (85 ft), the length of the tether
Re: A bit of Hot air !!
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Sat Apr 15, 2017 10:20 pmby Ian Warren
There were a few daring type in the day and some STUPID ideas .. least they can say tried and tested we won't do that again
Re: A bit of Hot air !!
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Mon Apr 17, 2017 2:08 pmby Aviator 1
I would agree for airplanes and helicopters.
Re: A bit of Hot air !!
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Mon Apr 17, 2017 2:17 pmby Ian Warren
Glen , I guess you have not seen "Those Magnificent in Their Flying Machines" based on fact
great little movie
Re: A bit of Hot air !!
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Mon Apr 17, 2017 7:08 pmby Aviator 1
Nah I haven't I don't watch much TV
Re: A bit of Hot air !!
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Mon Apr 17, 2017 7:24 pmby Ian Warren
Aviator 1 wrote:Nah I haven't I don't watch much TV
Must be hooking into your artwork then