My First Balloon Ascent by Alberto Santos-Dumont. At the height of his career, the pioneering aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont believed that flight could be a pathway to world peace, enabling people ...

They filled four spherical balloons, about three feet in diameter, with helium from a tank that environmental lawyer Pat Shea rented and carried in the back of his SUV.

Kite balloons, a variant ol the spherical balloons used for sporting purposes, are useful as observation posts for Army and Navy operations alike, ...

How slight an influence will move spherical balloons floating in space is known by the fact that the addition or subtraction of but a few pounds will cause a considerable rising or sinking.

A video presented to Congress by the Pentagon’s UFO investigators just might be of an ordinary balloon after all. The striking video , taken by a MQ-9 Reaper drone over Syria, fascinated ...

The weather balloon being inflated at launch - it would become spherical at higher altitudes Twenty-five years later, Dale Sommerfeldt can laugh about the rogue weather balloon that resisted the ...

This first ascent allowed me to appreciate fully the utility of this simple part of the spherical balloon's rigging, without which its landing would usually present grave difficulties.