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History
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Construction
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Manufacturers
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Accidents and incidents
1989 Alice Springs hot air balloon crashAlice Springs, Northern TerritoryWestfield, SomersetBath2012 Carterton hot air balloon crash
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Overview
- Lighter-than-air
- Gondola Gondola (balloon)
- Wicker basket Wicker
- Propane
- Buoyant
- Lower density Ideal gas law
- Aircraft
- Atmosphere
- Nylon
- Nomex
- Flight
- Paris
- Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier
- François Laurent d'Arlandes
- Montgolfier brothers
- Wind
- Thermal airship
- Felled Glossary of textile terminology
- Silicone
- Polyurethane
- Porous Porosity
- Hoppers Hopper balloon
- Parachute
- Velcro
- Hemisphere Sphere
- Cone Cone (geometry)
- Stress Stress (physics)
- Aerodynamic drag
- Rozière balloon
- Helium
History
- Sky lantern
- Simplified Chinese Simplified Chinese characters
- Traditional Chinese Traditional Chinese characters
- Zhuge Liang
- Shu Han
- Three Kingdoms
- Kongming lanterns Kongming lantern
- Battle of Legnica
- Bartolomeu de Gusmão
- John V of Portugal
- Casa da Índia
- Maria Anna of Austria
- Michelangelo Conti Pope Innocent XIII
- Julian Nott Julian Nott (balloonist)
- Nazca Lines
- Geoglyphs Geoglyph
- Nazca leaders Nazca culture
- Annonay
- Ardèche
- Faubourg Saint-Antoine
- Louis XVI
- Pilots Aviator
- First military use History of military ballooning
- Battle of Fleurus Battle of Fleurus (1794)
- Ed Yost
- Bristol Belle
Records
- Vijaypat Singhania
- Mumbai
- Per Lindstrand
- Plano, Texas
- Richard Branson
- Jet streams Jet stream
- Pacific Flyer Pacific Flyer?action=edit&redlink=1
- Bertrand Piccard
- Auguste Piccard
- Steve Fossett
- Fedor Konyukhov
Construction
- Liquefied gas Liquefied petroleum gas
- Forklift Forklift truck
- Cylinders Gas cylinder
- Ripstop nylon Ripstop
- Dacron Polyethylene terephthalate
- Polyester
- Load tapes Webbing
- Gores Gore (segment)
- Flying wires
- Carabiners Carabiner
- Woven Basket weaving
- Rattan
- Aluminium
- BTUs British thermal unit
- Pilot light
- Flint
- Lighter
- Piezoelectric Piezoelectricity
- Gimbal
- Pressure vessels Pressure vessel
- Stainless steel
- Titanium
- Fuel gauge
- Pressure gauge Pressure measurement
- Vapor pressure
- Nitrogen
- Heat tapes Trace heating
- Altimeter
- Variometer
- GPS Global Positioning System
Basket
Theory of operation
Safety equipment
Maintenance and repair
- Mold Mold (fungus)
Licensing
- N-number Aircraft registration
- Airworthiness
- Ultralight aircraft Ultralight aircraft (United States)
Accidents and incidents
- 1989 Alice Springs hot air balloon crash
- Alice Springs, Northern Territory
- Westfield, Somerset
- Bath Bath, Somerset
- 2012 Carterton hot air balloon crash
- Carterton, North Island
- 2012 Ljubljana Marshes hot air balloon crash
- Ljubljana
- 2013 Luxor hot air balloon crash
- Luxor
- 2016 Lockhart hot air balloon crash
- Lockhart, Texas
- 2021 Albuquerque hot air balloon crash
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
- 2025 Santa Catarina hot air balloon crash
- Praia Grande, Santa Catarina
Manufacturers
- Cameron Balloons
- Bristol
- Lindstrand Balloons
- Oswestry
- Thunder and Colt Thunder and Colt?action=edit&redlink=1
- Ultramagic
- Kubicek Balloons
- Brno
- Czechia Czech Republic
- Aerostar International, Inc. Raven Industries
- Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Firefly Balloons
- Statesville, North Carolina
- Head Balloons, Inc. Head Balloons, Inc.?action=edit&redlink=1
- Helen, Georgia
- Sundance Balloons Sundance Balloons?action=edit&redlink=1
- Fantasy Sky Promotions Fantasy Sky Promotions?action=edit&redlink=1
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Hot air balloon
Top relations
related to Premodern and unmanned balloons · 38
Hot air balloon → Also, Austria, Bartolomeu, Battle, Brazil, Casa, CE, China, Chinese, European, Gusmão, Gusmão's, History, In, Italian, Jesuit, John, Kongming, Legnica, London Daily Universal Register
related to Accidents and incidents · 35
Hot air balloon → Albuquerque, Alice Springs, All, Arizona, August, Australia, Bath, Brazil, Carterton, Egypt, Eight, Eloy, England, February, January, July, June, Ljubljana, Ljubljana Marshes, Lockhart
related to First manned flight · 24
Hot air balloon → After, Annonay, Ardèche, Arlandes, Entreprenant, Faubourg Saint-Antoine, Fleurus, France, French, Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, Jean-Francois Pilatre, Joseph-Michel, June, King Louis XVI, Later, Marquis François, November, October, Pilatre, Reveillon
related to Manufacturers · 14
Hot air balloon → Bristol, Cameron, Cameron Balloons, Colt, England, English, Lindstrand Balloons, N-500, Oswestry, Spain, The, These, Thunder, Ultramagic
related to Altitude · 11
Hot air balloon → He, India, June, Mumbai, On November, Panchale, Per Lindstrand, Plano, Texas, The, Vijaypat Singhania
related to Basket · 9
Hot air balloon → Baskets, Hot, In, Larger, Other, Small, Such, These, They
related to Modern balloons · 9
Hot air balloon → Bristol Belle, Ed Yost, Jim Winker, Modern, October, Presently, The, UK, United Kingdom
related to Generating lift · 7
Hot air balloon → Archimedes, For, Increasing, Many, The, This, With
related to Envelope · 4
Hot air balloon → During, Envelopes, Modern, The
related to Construction · 3
Hot air balloon → Attached, Mounted, The
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Important terminology
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hot air balloon | is a | lighter-than-air aircraft consisting of a bag | 0.90 | text |
| Hot air balloon | is a | first successful human-carrying flight technology | 0.90 | text |
| Nomex | instance of | is made from a fire-resistant material | 0.80 | text |
| ripstop nylon or dacron | instance of | similar to high-pressure forklift cylinders.EnvelopeModern hot air balloons are usually made of materials | 0.80 | text |
| nitrogen | instance of | or by the introduction of an inert gas | 0.80 | text |
| ripstop nylon or dacron | instance of | EnvelopeModern hot air balloons are usually made of materials | 0.80 | text |
| Helium or Hydrogen to lift the balloon | instance of | followed later that year with manned flights.GasInstead of using regular air it is also possible to use lighter than air gasses | 0.80 | text |
| though this means it is technically not a hot air balloon | instance of | followed later that year with manned flights.GasInstead of using regular air it is also possible to use lighter than air gasses | 0.80 | text |
| though they did influence the design of hybrid balloons.HybridThe 1785 Rozière balloon | instance of | followed later that year with manned flights.GasInstead of using regular air it is also possible to use lighter than air gasses | 0.80 | text |
| is the main type of hybrid balloon | instance of | followed later that year with manned flights.GasInstead of using regular air it is also possible to use lighter than air gasses | 0.80 | text |
| named after its creator | instance of | followed later that year with manned flights.GasInstead of using regular air it is also possible to use lighter than air gasses | 0.80 | text |
| Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier | instance of | followed later that year with manned flights.GasInstead of using regular air it is also possible to use lighter than air gasses | 0.80 | text |
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Nodes175
Edges174
Triples181
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011429
Components1
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