Hot Air Balloon: Blowing It Up

[cdebbi1]

Very nicely done pliot briefing, too!

[richie74wells]

what happens if the strings holding the balloon snap

[daytonmichaelphilpot]

Well when they were filling it up with air they were holding the strings and with are hot air balloon we hold the mouth and also the one guy almost steped on the wind skirt

[ParaglidingManiac]

Why does one side have a "wall"? What is it for?

[applesweeter]

Dear All,

I have some questions about psychology:

(1) Why do we love flying?

(2) Why do we like to fly hot-air-balloon?

(3) Why do we enjoy to design and to make balloons with various funny and cartoon shapes?

(4) Why do like to fly and to watch hot-air-balloon with funny or cartoon shapes?

(5) What is the enjoyment to fly hot-air-balloon comparing with that on an aeroplane?

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE for your creative ideas and brainstorm!!! :)

[westend104]

@applesweeter For us, it wasn't so much that we loved flying, but it was more that it was an exciting and exhilarating experience that we wanted to try at least once. And we're very glad we did! We loved the peace and quiet and the amazing views - but the height itself was frightening as well as the surprisingly short basket walls coming only to our belts (felt psychologically like we could fall out too easily).

[applesweeter]

@westend104

Yes, It is a different feeling comparing with flying with a Boeing jet.

I have 2 more interesting questions:

(1) How should be design a flying homesimilar to that at Disney "UP" animation moive?

(2) Why do some people like to live in a flyingh house?

(3) How will be our life style changed if we live in a flying house?

[Rammstein45]

My cousin fly's hot air balloon's, I get to go up with him every once and a while, it's always fun.

[QullVideo]

am i the only one to get a fear from looking up inside a hot air baloon? i think it might be the opposite to phobia of tight spaces.

[westend104]

@QullVideo Nope! You are in good company! It feels like I'm losing my balance to look up at anything tall, and that includes the inside of the balloon. (And I hate tight spaces, too, so call me King of the Phobias.) I probably would have been scared to death on this balloon flight if I hadn't been recording it; it really helped to have something else to do. No regrets, but I'm sure I won't do it again.

[tashdog1]

since 2001 i have always wanted to learn how to fly one so i thought i would start here this year as now got plenty money

[westend104]

@tashdog1 Good luck! It was really a cool experience.

[georgedublin1]

no way would i go up in one of those things i will stick to the boeings and airbuses

[hydrobot2003]

I guess you're ready for 2012. LOL!

how much something like that cost?

[westend104]

We're all set to escape Earth's destruction. lol I think it cost us each almost $200 for the ride. But it was worth it, and we probably won't do it again, so something cool to say we've done!

[palestino713]

the blonde milf is hot

[hayotro]

It seems to be that it was such a wonderful day!! I'd like to learn how to pilot in the future a balloon like that one! How was the wind?

[westend104]

Thanks for watching! The wind was calm at the lower altitudes, but clipped along steadily without gusting at higher altitudes, so we had to climb higher in order to move any distance at all. We saw other balloons that weren't willing to go higher stay stuck in one space and we thought, What's the point in that!

[1Sunrose]

I like the part of the video @4:18 when the woman said something to the Captian guy and he looks like he's saying ..Don't worry about it. That is when I would worry. You are brave!

[westend104]

I know exactly that moment! We heard of a hot air balloon accident in PA this past week where the pilot was killed and the 7 passengers were badly burned and injured; I think this might have been our first and only hot air ballooning adventure (although there's a risk in almost everything, isn't there?).