Homemade Hot air Balloon launch -It Flies for miles!

[AmanoJyaku71]

Sorry I meen candles facing up sorry.

[AmanoJyaku71]

Use a dry cleaner bag.Tape the holes shut on top.Make an X with straws.Use a paper hole punch to cut little holes in the straws so you can but birth day candles in the straws.Tape the X at the bottom of the bag with the straws facing up.Light candles and get in your car and try to follow it for miles!Use as few candles lighter is better.I use 3 birthday candles on each straw.Peace!

[dexxtteer]

Please help! I finally got one up in the clouds after about 15 different tries, but then could not do it again. Im sertain its my bag to fire ratio..Could you tell me what size bag and how much fuel to use? and what kind of fuel..iv tried so many things..lol

Thanks!

[BowlingFreak218]

try vaseline and a cotton ball. whats even better is methanol, or ethanol alcohol with a cotton ball. also a small fire starter or jiffy. birthday candles.

[catman529]

I like to use a strip of thick cotton fabric, tied in a knot around the piece of wire and soaked in candle wax. I wrap some aluminum foil around the knot so only the ends are sticking out - this makes a great double-wick candle that burns with a large flame.

[Jaredlolzall]

how dare u... the guy is dead

[rcdude619]

wat did u use for the fire

[newworldmatrix]

I tried another way of doing this. It used a cut up wire hanger to make an X and I used one of those rectangle logstarters for a fuel source...and a trash bag. I tried several times but...never got it off the ground. Came close though.Whats the deal with that? Does it need to be cold outside?

[TriopsGuy]

Yes because last time I checked, hot air rises in cold air. Not hot air rises in hot air -_-

[robfromorlando]

I like the "Major Tom" soundtrack...nice touch!

[eazyone23]

Best thing you can do is add fishing line to it ...That way you can pull it down with one hard pull of the fishing line to make sure it burns out or crashes where you can see it ....

[glad122912]

There may be ufo videos of this posted somewhere from some gullible people.

[overflite]

buy the Cakemate at 36/pk/z not the 24s. To heavy. Push Power Candles. Add Volume.

[coondogtheman1234]

can i do this with a garbage bag and a blowtorch

[disgruntldtoad]

I am very tempted to make one of these myself, but the dilemma I have is, dont bags of fire burn things down if they land on them?

[SickNick69]

perhaps. lts all a gamble

[brian940808]

and this is how the san francisco fires started >.>

[LazyPrinzez]

Cool...Awesome...Nice...Incred­ible...Magnificent...Wonderful­...Fantastic...Spectacular...B­eautiful...Terrific...One-of-a­-kind...Fascinating...Cute...a­nd Idealistic....

Hehehehehehe!!!

>Peace~~!

[SickNick69]

haha-yeah its not bad eh-u can make them so easy too

see ya

[3d834]

@LazyPrinzez u r weird

[ultimate007royale]

thats so koollllllllllllllllllllllll

[zebikabiro]

people would report a ufo sighting after seeing that.

[SickNick69]

it has actually happened b4-1 of my balloons was on the late night news in 2001 as a UFO sighting

[xjayrman]

lol

i cant belive people would expect an airbag is an UFO

[bigbeefnachosupreme]

with my luck it would land somewhere and i would be charged with something

[SickNick69]

um....I dont quite get it-sex stuff?

[avanzatotrxx]

I use space oddity by david bowie to power my balloons. This song is called "Jiffy" by firelighter.

[SickNick69]

what an odd comment

[Anto0044]

what do you use for "fuel"? And what was the name of the music :-) ?

[SickNick69]

U use a jiffy firelighter and its 'Space Oddity' by David Bowie

[dudeade23]

try putting tissu papertogather forning a cube out of different colors and it looks way better i do diferent shapes 4 my friends birthdays and they look totally cool try it!!!

[SickNick69]

wow-OK kool-Thx 4 the idea-but can u see it in the dark?

[dudeade23]

yeah they look even better cause the colors glow

[SickNick69]

Thats mad-Im gonna have to try it-so do u line the Inside of the bag?and where do u get this tissue paper from>???

[mrdeathdie13]

yaha! david bowie!....did i even spell that right? oh well... so what do you do if the whole thing lights on fire?

[ktzeroii]

I guess you would have to build another one.

[SickNick69]

Yeah its taken many ballooning efforts to get to the stage where I no longer have Hindenberg-type ballooning disasters (oh the humanity!) But ktz is right-u simply build another one. Trick is to not use too much jiffy...but the worst was when one got stuck on someones balcony-oh man was I glad they werent home!