On August 16, 1960, U.S. Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger went up in an open gondola hanging from a polyethylene balloon. At a height of 102,800 feet -- a new altitude record -- Capt.

[Kensho Miyoshi] — an avid reader of Hack a Day — needed an art installation project in Tokyo, he came up with these clever glowing balloon blimps. They feature a mini gondola hanging from the ...

DAKHLA, EGYPT – MARCH 21: The Breitling Orbiter III balloon ... the gondola from their historic non-stop around-the-world flight will be put on display at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space ...

Control of the height of the balloon was via ballast. There were 40 small bags outside the gondola full of lead weights. An air-tight mechanical arrangement allowed the crew to flip the bags over ...

ON any given day, countless Land Rovers “bushwhack” through the African savannah – that’s safari slang for off-roading – ...

where air pressure is 300 millibars ... When all the ballast is gone, the balloon eventually sinks, and another automatic device cuts the instrument gondola free and lowers it to earth on a ...

Annual hot air balloon festival draws global audience to ... A little after 10 a.m., Blanchard climbed into the gondola and ...