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A hot air balloon is a lighter-than-air aircraft consisting of a bag, called an envelope, which contains heated air. Suspended beneath is a gondola or...

From January 28 to February 4, 2023, a high-altitude balloon originating from China flew across North American airspace, including Alaska, western Canada...

On October 15, 2009, a homemade helium-filled gas balloon shaped to resemble a silver flying saucer was released into the atmosphere above Fort Collins...

Red Balloon or Red Balloons may refer to: The Red Balloon, a 1956 French short film Flight of the Red Balloon, a 2007 film based on the 1956 short film...

Look up balloon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A balloon is a flexible container for (partially or fully) confining a gas. Balloon may also refer...

A barrage balloon is a type of airborne barrage, a large uncrewed tethered balloon used to defend ground targets against aircraft attack, by raising aloft...

Balloon fetish, also known as globophilia refers to a sexual interest in balloons. People with a balloon fetish are called looners. This fetish should...

In aeronautics, a balloon is an unpowered aerostat, which remains aloft or floats due to its buoyancy. It may use hot air as a lifting gas, or it may...

A cutting balloon is an angioplasty device invented by Barath et al. used in percutaneous coronary interventions. It has a special balloon tip with small...

Balloon Dog is a series of sculptures by the American artist Jeff Koons. There are different versions of this sculpture, made between 1994 and 2000, with...

up hot-air balloon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An air balloon usually refers to a hot air balloon. It may also refer to: Balloon (aeronautics)...

The balloon effect is a criticism of United States drug policy. The name draws an analogy between efforts to eradicate the production of illegal drugs...

Balloon Kid is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. It was released in October 1990 in North America and in January 1991...

the free dictionary. Balloon phobia or globophobia is a fear of balloons. The most common source of fear is the sound of balloons popping (making it a...

Synonyms include espionage balloon, reconnaissance balloon, spy balloon, and surveillance balloon. Historically, observation balloons were filled with hydrogen...

A balloon release is a ceremonial event in which a number of hydrogen- or helium-filled balloons are launched into the sky. Balloon releases can be done...

An incendiary balloon (or balloon bomb) is a balloon inflated with a lighter-than-air gas such as hot air, hydrogen, or helium, that has a bomb, incendiary...

Balloon Fight is a 1984 action video game developed by Nintendo and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It...

Girl with Balloon (also, Balloon Girl or Girl and Balloon) is a series of stencil murals around London by the graffiti artist Banksy, started in 2002...

A water balloon or water bomb is a balloon, often made of latex rubber, filled with water. Water balloons are used in a summer pastime of cooling off...

A weather balloon, also known as a sounding balloon, is a high-altitude balloon (HAB) that carries instruments into the stratosphere for measuring atmospheric...

Skyhook balloons were high-altitude balloons developed by Otto C. Winzen and General Mills, Inc. They were used by the United States Navy Office of Naval...

A balloon payment mortgage is a mortgage that does not fully amortize over the term of the note, thus leaving a balance due at maturity. The final payment...

Japan, and the Russian Far East). It is commonly known as balloon flower (referring to the balloon-shaped flower buds), Chinese bellflower, or platycodon...

A toy balloon or party balloon is a small balloon mostly used for decoration, advertising and as a toy. Toy balloons are usually made of rubber or aluminized...

International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta Saga International Balloon Fiesta (in Japan) Saxonia International Balloon Fiesta For a complete list of balloon festivals,...

Angioplasty, also known as balloon angioplasty and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, is a minimally invasive endovascular procedure used to widen...

High-altitude balloons (HABs) or stratostats are usually uncrewed balloons typically filled with helium or hydrogen and released into the stratosphere...

The Red Balloon (French: Le ballon rouge) is a 1956 French fantasy comedy-drama featurette written, produced and directed by Albert Lamorisse. The 34-minute...

Balloon modelling or balloon twisting is the shaping of special modelling balloons into various shapes, often balloon animals. People who create balloon...

A tethered, moored or captive balloon is a balloon that is restrained by one or more tethers attached to the ground so it cannot float freely. The base...

many common names: Indian globular frog, Indian balloon frog, grey balloon frog, and greater balloon frog. Specimens from the Western Ghats may represent...

A balloon catheter is a type of "soft" catheter with an inflatable "balloon" at its tip which is used during a catheterization procedure to enlarge a...

Chinese balloon may refer to: Sky lantern, small hot-air balloon launched for festivities, historically also used for communication and militarily 2023...

Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was a failed Swedish effort to reach the North Pole, resulting in the deaths of all three expedition members...

Balloon sinuplasty is a procedure that ear, nose and throat surgeons may use for the treatment of blocked sinuses. Patients diagnosed with sinusitis but...

The two-balloon experiment is an experiment involving interconnected balloons. It is used in physics classes as a demonstration of elasticity. Two identical...

Balloon Pop, known in Europe as Pop! and in Japan as Rainbow Pop (レインボーポップ), is a video game developed by Japanese studio Dreams and released for the...

Speech balloons (also speech bubbles, dialogue balloons, or word balloons) are a graphic convention used most commonly in comic books, comics, and cartoons...

A gas balloon is a balloon that rises and floats in the air because it is filled with a gas lighter than air (such as helium or hydrogen). When not in...

A balloon glow or night glow is an event often held as a warmup to a hot air balloon festival. The balloons are set up before sunrise in the launch area...

A gastric balloon, also known as an intragastric balloon (IGB) or a stomach balloon, is an inflatable medical device that is temporarily placed into the...

Hedgehog balloon into a lamppost at Columbus Circle. The lamppost damaged the balloon and the top of the post broke off while inside the balloon, dragging...

Hot air balloon festivals are held annually in many places throughout the year, allowing balloon pilots and the general public to gather together and enjoy...

A hopper balloon (simply hopper) is a small, one-person hot air balloon. Unlike a conventional hot air balloon where people ride inside a basket, there...

A para-balloon is a tool used in a variety of games. It appears as a parachute shape and is composed of fragments of colorful cloth in multiple, bright...

Pop the Balloon or Find Love is a dating show where someone is evaluated by a panel of other singles, who "pop" a balloon if they are not interested....

A Rozière balloon (or simply Rozière) is a hybrid balloon that has separate chambers for a non-heated lifting gas (such as hydrogen or helium) as well...

Balloon, baloun, balloon-ball or wind-ball is a game similar to the modern game of volleyball, in which a leather ball is batted by the fist or forearm...

Lead Balloon is a British sitcom television series produced by Open Mike Productions for BBC Four. The series was created and is co-written by comedian...

Balloon Corps may refer to History of military ballooning Union Army Balloon Corps, Civil War era Observation Balloon Service in World War I French Aerostatic...

A balloon rocket is a rubber balloon filled with air or other gases. Besides being simple toys, balloon rockets are widely used as a teaching device to...

Balloon tamponade is the use of balloons inserted into the esophagus, stomach or uterus, and inflated to alleviate or stop refractory bleeding. Examples...

A balloon loop, turning loop, or reversing loop (North American Terminology) allows a rail vehicle or train to reverse direction without having to shunt...

balloon network using a special Internet antenna attached to their building. The signal traveled through the balloon network from balloon to balloon,...

is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying hot air balloons. Attractive aspects of ballooning include the exceptional quiet (except...

Balloon Man may refer to: "The Balloonman", an episode of the television series Gotham Balloon Man (album), a 1989 album by Iain Ballamy Balloon Man (DC...

The Bakri balloon is a medical device invented and designed by Younes Noaman Bakri in 1999. The obstetrical balloon is a 24 French, 54 cm-long, silicone...

balloon drop upon the conclusion of their presidential nominee's acceptance speech. This is a display created by releasing a large array of balloons from...

The BBC One Balloon idents were a series of idents (station identifications) used on the British TV channel BBC One from 4 October 1997 to 28 March 2002...

A balloon pops when the material that makes up its surface tears or shreds, creating a hole. Normally, there is a balance of the balloon skin's elastic...

Balloon Land, also known as The Pincushion Man, is a 1935 animated short film produced by Ub Iwerks as part of the ComiColor Cartoons series. The cartoon...

[heiki]; lit. "Code 'Fu' [Weapon]") was an incendiary balloon weapon (風船爆弾, fūsen bakudan; lit. "balloon bomb") deployed by Japan against the United States...

A trial balloon, or kite-flying (used in the UK and elsewhere), is information sent out to the media in order to observe the reaction of an audience....

An airship, dirigible balloon or dirigible is a type of aerostat (lighter-than-air) aircraft that can navigate through the air flying under its own power...

Balloon lights (also called lighting balloons) are a specialized type of luminaire used primarily for lighting in the motion picture industry, night highway...

Balloons and kites were the first inventions used in aerial warfare and their primary role was reconnaissance. Balloons provided a reliable and stable...

Maximum Balloon is the debut solo studio album by American musician and record producer Dave Sitek. It was released on September 21, 2010, via DGC/Interscope...

popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. He lives...

"The Balloon-Hoax" is the title used in collections and anthologies of a newspaper article by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844...

kernel implements a "balloon driver" that allocates unused memory within the VM's address space into a pool of memory (the "balloon"), which makes that...

The Intrepid was a hydrogen gas balloon or aerostat built for use by the Union Army Balloon Corps for aerial reconnaissance purposes during the American...

Gilded Balloon is a producer and promoter of live entertainment events, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and best known as one of the Big Four venue operators...

Balloon were an early 1990s music duo from London, consisting of Ian Bickerton and David Sheppard. Their first album, Gravity, was released in 1992 by...

Balloon propaganda campaigns in Korea include both North and South Korean propaganda leaflet campaigns, with the use of balloons as a distribution method...

solar balloon is a balloon that gains buoyancy when the air inside is heated by solar radiation, usually with the help of black or dark balloon material...

C. Lowe along with his father Clovis Lowe in 1858. It was the second balloon built by Lowe at his Hoboken, N.J. facility and named with the express...

Balloon Command was the Royal Air Force command which was responsible for controlling all the United Kingdom-based barrage balloon units during the Second...

The Moon's a Balloon is a best-selling memoir by British actor David Niven (1910–1983), published in 1971. It details his early life. There have been...

A kite balloon is a tethered balloon which is shaped to help make it stable in low and moderate winds and to increase its lift. It typically comprises...

A ceiling balloon also called a pilot balloon or pibal, is used by meteorologists to determine the height of the base of clouds above ground level during...

rubber balloons. Unlike traditional hot-air balloons, where a single large balloon is equipped with vents enabling altitude control, cluster balloons are...

Balloon help is a help system introduced by Apple Computer in their 1991 release of System 7.0. The name referred to the way the help text was displayed...

helium filled balloon. Because the balloon is not controllable, the delivery of balloon mail is left to good fortune; often the balloon and postcard are...

Balloon Farm may refer to: Balloon Farm (Frankfort, New York), a historic home at Frankfort in Herkimer County, New York Balloon Farm (film), a 1999 TV...

Trainwreck: Balloon Boy is a 2025 American documentary film directed by Gillian Pachter regarding the Balloon boy hoax. It premiered on Netflix on July...

Love Balloon is the fifth studio album by Australian band Ocean Alley. The album was announced in June 2025 alongside its title track, and released on...

857167°E / 1.298472; 103.857167 The DHL Balloon, in Singapore, was the world's second largest tethered helium balloon. It was inflated in 2006, and closed...

Tingle no Koi no Balloon Trip (いろづきチンクルの恋のバルーントリップ, Irozuki Chinkuru no Koi no Barūn Torippu; lit. "Color Changing Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love" or "Ripened...

The Balloon Museum is an international exhibition brand focusing on inflatable and air-based contemporary art. Conceived and produced by Rome-based Lux...

The intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) is a mechanical device that increases myocardial oxygen perfusion and indirectly increases cardiac output through...

The Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is an annual four day free festival of hot air ballooning in Bristol, England. Teams from the UK and other parts...

Balloon syndrome is a rare condition in hedgehogs in which gas is trapped under the skin as a result of injury or infection, causing the animal to inflate...

Cameron Balloons is a company established in 1971 in Bristol, England, by Don Cameron to manufacture hot air balloons. Cameron had previously, with others...

A balloon debate is a debate in which a number of speakers attempt to win the approval of an audience. The audience is invited to imagine that the speakers...

Black Balloon may refer to: The Black Balloon (album), a 1979 album by English folk musician, John Renbourn The Black Balloon (film), a 2008 Australian...

King & Balloon is a 1980 fixed shooter video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. It was released in Japan in October 1980 and in North...

interest or fad in balloons that originated in France in the late 18th century and continued into the 19th century, during the advent of balloon flights. The...

Electric Balloon is a type of double-decker tram that operates on the Blackpool Tramway. Initially brought into service in 1934, the Balloon formed the...

The Balloon World Cup is an event organized by Spanish celebrities Ibai Llanos and Gerard Piqué, based on a viral balloon keep-up game on social media...

research may be conducted from a research balloon. Weather balloons are a type of research balloon. Research balloons usually study a single aspect of science...

YouTube dating show Pop the Balloon or Find Love and as an executive producer of its Netflix live adaptation, Pop The Balloon Live. Amuli is married to...

metres to hundreds of kilometres. Even atmospheric samples collected from balloons at five kilometres altitude and ships mid-ocean have reported spider landings...

Billy's Balloon is a 16 mm animated short by Don Hertzfeldt. It was his fourth and final student film at UC Santa Barbara. Similar to his other cartoons...

A balloon tank is a style of propellant tank used in the SM-65 Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and Centaur upper stage that does not use...

The Balloon Raid was a non-violent British Women's Suffrage Movement protest event that took place over the skies of London on Tuesday 16 February 1909...

Aortic valvuloplasty, also known as balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV), is a procedure used to improve blood flow through the aortic valve in conditions...

Supreme Balloon is a 2008 studio album by American electronic music duo Matmos, released via Matador Records. On the album, Matmos skipped sampling antics...

A super-pressure balloon (SPB) is a style of aerostatic balloon where the volume of the balloon is kept relatively constant in the face of changes in ambient...

Blue Balloon may refer to: Blue Balloon, a 2007 rock song performed by Ween and released on La Cucaracha (album) Blue Balloon (The Hourglass Song), a 1973...

Crazy Balloon is a 1980 maze video game developed and published by Taito for arcades. It was released in Japan in March 1980 and Europe the same year...

Balloon busters were military pilots known for destroying enemy observation balloons. These pilots were noted for their fearlessness, as balloons were...

European Hot Air Balloon Championships are the FAI European Hot Air Balloon Championship and the FAI Women's European Hot Air Balloon Championship. These...

The E77 balloon bomb was a U.S. anti-crop biological munition based on the design of Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb. The E77 used feathers as a vector to...

Legislature passed SB 1990, enacting a Balloon Law to regulate the sales and use of helium-filled foil balloons. The law was passed in an effort to reduce...

Balloon hashing is a key derivation function presenting proven memory-hard password-hashing and modern design. It was created by Dan Boneh, Henry Corrigan-Gibbs...

Green Balloon may refer to: Zielony Balonik (Green Balloon, in Polish), a literary cabaret in Kraków Green Balloon Club, a children's program on the BBC...

The Air Balloon is a road junction and former pub in Birdlip, Gloucestershire, England. The junction is on the A417 at a significant congestion point...

The National Balloon Facility, also known as the TIFR Balloon Facility, is a stratospheric-balloon launch base under the joint management of the Tata...

A zero-pressure balloon (ZP) is a style of aerostatic balloon that is unsealed at its base, creating a mechanism by which lifting gas can vent out the...

hydrogen balloon. 1932: 16.201 km (53,150 ft) -Auguste Piccard and Max Cosyns in a hydrogen balloon. 1933-09-30: 18.501 km (60,700 ft); USSR balloon USSR-1...

Luftballons, "99 balloons") is a song by the West German band Nena from their 1983 self-titled album. An English-language version titled "99 Red Balloons" (German:...

founded Omega Balloons which constructed ten balloons, before the company split into Cameron Balloons and Western Balloons in 1970. Cameron Balloons of Bristol...

Cardiospermum halicacabum, known as the lesser balloon vine, balloon plant, love in a puff, or heartseed, is a climbing plant widely distributed across...

"Yellow Balloon" was a song by the Yellow Balloon, included on the group's 1967 self-titled album. It was classified as being in the sunshine pop genre...

Balloon Factory may refer to: School of Ballooning, a late 19th-century / early 20th-century British military unit The Balloon Factory, a 2006 album by...

A balloon helicopter is a flying toy consisting of a latex toy balloon and a plastic propeller, derived from the simple balloon rocket. The most important...

homemade hot air balloon. The unique feat was the result of over a year and a half of preparations involving three different balloons, various modifications...

white balloons with the Virgin Group logo on the side of the balloon. Virgin Balloon Flights owns and operate the largest passenger carrying balloon service...

The Balloon Federation of America (BFA) is a 501c3 non-profit group for the advancement of lighter-than-air aviation which includes hot air and gas balloons...

On 21 June 2025, a hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in Praia Grande, Santa Catarina, Brazil, killing 8 of the 21 people on board. It is the deadliest...

Balloon hoax may refer to: The Balloon-Hoax (1844) Balloon boy hoax (2009) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Balloon hoax...

involved crewed balloons, such as Montgolfiere hot-air balloons, Charlière gas balloons, or Rozière gas and hot-air hybrid balloons. This list does not...

Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Hot Air Balloon Championship and the FAI Women's World Hot Air Balloon Championship. These biennial events for hot...

Red Balloon Learner Centres provide education for children aged eleven to sixteen (eighteen at Red Balloon of the Air) who do not attend mainstream school...

"Green’s Balloon" was a balloon flown by a Mr Green. It took to the skies over Newcastle four times in the Spring/Summer of 1825 and three times in September...

Caquot kite balloon (in French Caquot Captif) was a type of non-rigid military observation balloon, designed in 1915 by Albert Caquot. The type became...

Balloon race may refer to: Balloon Race (ride), a type of fairground ride A competitive event based on a balloon release A competitive event in hot air...

The Balloon (in Hungarian: Léghajó) is a work of art by Hungarian artist Pál Szinyei Merse from 1878. The picture is oil on canvas and has dimensions...

A balloon carrier or balloon tender was a ship equipped with a balloon, usually tied to the ship by a rope or cable, and usually used for observation....

Mount Balloon is an 1,847-metre-elevation (6,060-foot) mountain in Fiordland, New Zealand. Mount Balloon is part of the Wick Mountains and is situated...

hot air balloon crashed near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 out of the 21 people on board. A fire developed in the basket due to a leak in the balloon's gas fuel...

balloons, also known as bleach bombs, are water balloons filled with bleach as opposed to water. In 2012, there were multiple incidents of balloons allegedly...

All-Ohio Balloon Festival is an annual hot air balloon showcase held at the Union County Airport in Marysville, Ohio. In addition to hot air balloons, the...

has over 500 hot air balloons each year, far from its beginnings of merely 13 balloons in 1972. The event is the largest balloon festival in the world...

Astragalus whitneyi is a species of legume known by the common name balloon-pod milk-vetch, balloon milk-vetch, or Whitney's locoweed. It is a native to the Cascade...

permission to fly the balloon there was refused by Police Scotland. One of the organizers, Max Wakefield, described the balloon protest as being in response...

mylar balloon is a surface of revolution. While a sphere is the surface that encloses a maximal volume for a given surface area, the mylar balloon instead...

House of Balloons is the debut mixtape by the Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd. It was self-released free of charge on March 21, 2011, through his...

The Zénith was a 3,000-cubic-meter gas balloon built in 1874 by Théodore Sivel and funded by the French Society for Aerial Navigation that set early flight...

Balloon (German: Ballon) is a 2018 German thriller drama film directed by Michael Herbig. The film depicts the crossing of the Inner German border by...

Oswestry, England, as Colt Balloons (later Thunder & Colt Balloons, then Lindstrand Balloons) in 1978. Lindstrand Balloons was known for its leading-edge...

(light-framing) if the supports are more numerous and smaller, such as balloon, platform, light-steel framing and pre-built framing. Light-frame construction...

Burnley Balloon Festival was a balloon festival held in Towneley Park, Burnley. The festival was held annually from 2002, usually in late July. It was...

Balloon is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language horror thriller film written and directed by Sinish and produced by Dhilip Subbarayan, Arun Balaji and Nandakumar...

Annonay in Ardèche, France. They invented the Montgolfière-style hot air balloon, globe aérostatique, which launched the first confirmed piloted ascent...

The Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF), established in 1961 and formerly known as the National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF), is a NASA facility...

The Balloon Farm was an American musical group. Originally from New Jersey, the group took its name from a New York City nightclub. It is best known for...

by Andy Mayson. The film follows a couple who take a trip on a hot air balloon to the Dolomites to rekindle their relationship, but when a third passenger...

Paper Mâché Dream Balloon is the seventh studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. It was released on 13 November...

The Zodiac balloon accident was the crash of a French military balloon at Noisy-le-Grand, France, on 17 April 1913, which killed five. The spherical French...

releasing almost 1.5 million balloons. The event was intended to be a harmless publicity stunt. However, the released balloons drifted back over the city...

The White Balloon (Persian: بادکنک سفيد, Badkonake sefid) is a 1995 Iranian drama film directed by Jafar Panahi, in his feature film directorial debut...

The National Balloon Classic is an annual hot air balloon festival held at the Memorial Balloon Field in Indianola, Iowa. The classic is a nine-day event...

French writers to refer to gas balloons. The Academy of Science commissioned Jacques Alexandre César Charles to build balloons in the summer of 1783 because...

The Balloon Vendor (Italian: Il venditore di palloncini, also released as Last Moments and The Last Circus Show) is a 1974 Italian drama film directed...

The Balloon (Swedish: Ballongen) is a 1946 Swedish comedy film directed by Göran Gentele and Nils Poppe and starring Poppe, Marianne Löfgren, Ingrid Borthen...

FireFly Balloons is an American hot air balloon manufacturer that started as Barnes Balloons in 1972 in Statesville, NC. The company is one of the oldest...

The European Balloon Festival is the largest hot air balloon festival in Spain, and one of the largest in Europe. It takes place every year during the...

"Air Balloon" is a song by English singer Lily Allen from her third studio album, Sheezus (2014). The song was premiered on BBC Radio 1 on 13 January...

The balloon shark (Cephaloscyllium sufflans) is a species of catshark, and part of the family Scyliorhinidae, endemic to the southwestern Indian Ocean...

The various balloon pilot badges of the United States Armed Forces are military badges created between 1918 and 1922. The badges recognized qualified...

Navy balloon A-5598 was an American naval free balloon which went off-course and its crew of three were recorded missing for several weeks. The balloon departed...

The Union Army Balloon Corps was a branch of the Union Army during the American Civil War, established by presidential appointee Thaddeus S. C. Lowe....

The National Balloon Museum is a non-profit museum in Indianola, Iowa, United States. It was founded in 1975 in short term locations, later gaining a...

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A balloon septostomy is the widening of the foramen ovale, a patent foramen ovale (PFO), or an atrial septal defect (ASD) via cardiac catheterization...

A balloon clock is a bracket clock with a waisted or balloon-shaped case. It was popular in England from the late 18th to the early 19th century. It is...

The Black Balloon is a 2008 Australian comedy-drama film starring Toni Collette, Rhys Wakefield, Luke Ford, Erik Thomson, Gemma Ward as well as a cast...

other has a valve on the outside end and connects to a balloon at the inside tip. The balloon is inflated with sterile water or saline while inside the...

Double-balloon enteroscopy, also known as push-and-pull enteroscopy, is an endoscopic technique for visualization of the small bowel. It was developed...

homemade aerostat made of an ordinary lawn chair and 42 helium-filled weather balloons. The aircraft rose to an altitude of about 16,000 feet (4,900 m), drifted...

Big Balloon is the fifth studio album by English indie rock band Dutch Uncles, released on 17 February 2017. Tom Ewing of Freaky Trigger describes the...

A vacuum airship, also known as a vacuum balloon, is a hypothetical airship that is evacuated rather than filled with a lighter-than-air gas such as hydrogen...

Green Balloon Club is a British children's factual television program that started on CBeebies on 20 June 2008. Green Balloon Club focuses on the adventures...

Colorado Springs Labor Day Lift Off (formerly the Colorado Balloon Classic) is a hot air balloon festival in Colorado Springs. Held each Labor Day weekend...

The Adirondack Balloon Festival is an annually held hot-air balloon festival that takes place in Queensbury, New York during mid-to-late September, roughly...

Balloon is a 2019 American short coming-of-age fantasy drama film written and directed by Jeremy Merrifield and produced by Dream Three as Merrifield's...

title Yogi Bear: Great Balloon Blast. Gameplay is a hybrid of Puzzle Bobble, Arkanoid, and Space Invaders. Rows of coloured balloons advance down the screen...

A balloon-borne telescope is a type of airborne telescope, a sub-orbital astronomical telescope that is suspended below one or more stratospheric balloons...

A lava balloon is a gas-filled bubble of lava that floats on the sea surface. It can be up to several metres in size. When it emerges from the sea, it...

Victoria Park, Leicester, during a public demonstration of a new hydrogen balloon by the aeronaut Henry Tracey Coxwell. An estimated 50,000 spectators were...

Yellow Balloon may refer to: The Yellow Balloon (band), a 1967 American sunshine pop band "Yellow Balloon", a song by the band The Yellow Balloon (film)...

Taunggyi Hot Air Balloon Festival (Burmese: တောင်ကြီးမီးပုံးပျံပွဲတော် MLCTS: Taunggyi mee pone pyan pwe daw ) also known as Taunggyi Tazaungdaing Festival...

Robert (1760–1828) were the engineers who built the world's first hydrogen balloon for professor Jacques Charles, which flew from central Paris on 27 August...

The Philadelphia Balloon Riot occurred at Vauxhall Garden in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the evening of September 8, 1819. After guards beat a boy unconscious...

L'Ascension de la rosière, released in the United States as Honeymoon in a Balloon and in Britain as The Ascension of a Communicant, is a 1908 French short...

The Spirit of Freedom balloon was a Rozière balloon designed and built by Donald Cameron and Tim Cole. In 2002 solo pilot Steve Fossett flew the Spirit...

Piccard (January 13, 1926 – September 13, 2020) was a Swiss-born American balloon pioneer, promoter, innovator, designer, builder, and pilot. Piccard was...

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altitude-stable stratospheric balloon systems used for earth observation and remote sensing applications. The balloon systems are described by the company...

later shown empty. Tobe leaves a balloon tied to the doorknob of Leanne's room. Leanne leaves the house with this balloon and her suitcase. She is greeted...

with balloons and airships. It was established at Chatham in Kent in 1888. The school moved to Stanhope Lines, Aldershot in 1890 when a balloon section...

Balloon Farm is a 1999 American fantasy comedy television film directed by William Dear, written by Steven M. Karczynski, and starring Rip Torn, Mara...

materials that have been flown over the border by balloon. The balloons are hydrogen gas balloons that carry a wide range of materials such as transistor...

telemetry instrument carried into the atmosphere usually by a weather balloon that measures various atmospheric parameters and transmits them by radio...

clustered high-altitude balloons, and with his wife Jeannette, the plastic balloon. Piccard's inventions and co-inventions are used in balloon flight, aircraft...

The Anderson Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum is a museum dedicated to the worldwide history, science, and art of all types of ballooning...

have released three studio albums, Thinktank (2013), Green Balloon (2019), and Red Balloon (2022). In 2025, they won their first Grammy for the 2024 album...

was the name of three different Rozière balloons made by the Bristol-based balloon manufacturer Cameron Balloons to circumnavigate the globe, named after...

observation balloons over the front lines. Once forces of the American Expeditionary Forces, had built up, it continued to operate as the 1st Balloon Company...

A balloon satellite, sometimes referred to as a "satelloon", is a satellite inflated with gas after it has been put into orbit. The first flying body...

historical contributions to balloon flight; in 1783, the Montgolfier brothers conducted the first human flight using a hot air balloon. For the first time, as...

Uterine balloon tamponade (UBT) is a non-surgical method of treating refractory postpartum hemorrhage. Once postpartum hemorrhage has been identified...

for Bombing Middle England. Two of his other graffiti works, Girl with Balloon and Bomb Hugger, sold for £37,200 and £31,200 respectively, which were...

Clowns and Balloons is a circus-themed video game written by Frank Cohen for Atari 8-bit computers and published in 1982 by Datasoft. The game was also...

One of them is Kubíček Balloons (in Czech Balóny Kubíček (pronounced Koo-bee-check), is a Czech manufacturer of hot-air balloons, inflatables and airships...

Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) is a minimally-invasive procedure performed during resuscitation of critically-injured...

Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, A Journey of Discovery by Three Englishmen in Africa (French: Cinq semaines en ballon) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne...

Barrage Balloon Battalion was an African American United States Army unit that saw combat in Europe during World War II. The 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion...

The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (also referred to as The Oogieloves) is a 2012 American interactive educational children's musical adventure...

the name of the Rozière balloon (registration N2079) that made the fourth attempt at crossing the Atlantic Ocean. The balloon was launched from East Hampton...

Balloon cell nevus is a benign nevus. It appears like a melanocytic nevus. Histologically it is characterized by swollen, pale, polyhedral melanocytes...

ureteric balloon catheter is a balloon catheter intended for treating strictures of the ureter. In fact it is a double J stent on which a balloon is mounted...

The Twenty-One Balloons is a novel by William Pène du Bois, published in 1947 by the Viking Press and awarded the Newbery Medal for excellence in American...

balloon-launching platform to spy on Confederate defenses from afar. This initial balloon experiment by John A. Dahlgren led to intensified balloon spying...

Red Balloon is a 13-minute thriller short film directed by Alexis Wajsbrot and Damien Mace. It is adapted from the "clown statue" urban legend. The movie...

example, helium atoms inside a balloon can diffuse through the wall of the balloon and escape, resulting in the balloon slowly deflating. Other air molecules...

The Balloon Observer's Badge (German: Ballonbeobachterabzeichen) was a military decoration of Nazi Germany during World War II. It was awarded to German...

Balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) is an emerging minimally invasive procedure to treat chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) in people...

"Hot Air Balloon" is a song by American electronica project Owl City. The song was released digitally on May 5, 2009, as the first promotional single...

large-scale balloon displays, large-scale confetti displays, and inventing designs for balloon-based decorations. He founded his company, BalloonArt by Treb...

an American businessman. He previously owned the nationally-known Stone Balloon bar in Newark, Delaware, and was inducted into the Delaware Rock 'n Roll...

The Skywhale is a hot air balloon resembling a strange whale-like creature designed by the sculptor Patricia Piccinini as part of a commission to mark...

The Northampton Balloon Festival is an annual hot air balloon festival held in Northampton, England. The original festival was held in The Racecourse...

suspending from a trapeze below a parachute attached to Hot Air Balloon and cutting loose from a balloon floating back to earth while hanging from the trapeze beneath...

The London Hot-Air Balloon Festival (London Balloon Festival) was an annual hot-air balloon festival held in London, Ontario, Canada. The festival, which...

Door-to-balloon is a time measurement in emergency cardiac care (ECC), specifically in the treatment of ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (or...

Loon LLC balloons, machine learning models were employed alongside altitude control systems with superpressure balloon technology to keep balloons floating...

that relies on buoyancy to maintain flight. Aerostats include unpowered balloons (free-flying or tethered) and powered airships. The relative density of...

in North America, and first aircraft related disaster. Unmanned hot air balloons are popular in Chinese history. Zhuge Liang of the Shu Han kingdom, in...

Balloon Eustachian tuboplasty (BET) is a minimally invasive procedure for the causal treatment of Eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD), an often-chronic...

self-taught balloon artist who has been twisting balloons since 1991. Best known for his balloon hats, Somekh's other signature pieces include the balloon flower...

using Vocaloid and other related software under the name Balloon (バルーン, stylized as balloon). Keina Suda started playing drums in junior high. He wanted...

"Black Balloon" is the fifth and final single by indie rock duo The Kills from their third studio album, Midnight Boom (2008). It was released on March...

Egyptian tourist industry. Tour companies offer sunrise rides in hot-air balloons to tourists who enjoy views of ancient Thebes, the temple complexes of...

called "Luigi's Balloon World", was released as part of an update on February 21, 2018. In this mode, players have 30 seconds to hide a balloon somewhere in...

The Zamperla Balloon Race is a tilting, circular motion amusement park ride manufactured by Antonio Zamperla S.p.A. The ride makes its way up a structure...

Red Balloon (Korean: 빨간풍선) is a South Korean television series starring Seo Ji-hye, Lee Sung-jae, Hong Soo-hyun, Lee Sang-woo and Jung Yoo-min. It aired...

Light Heart was a balloon constructed by Colonel Thomas Leigh Gatch Jr., USAR (13 September 1925 – disappeared 19 February 1974) for an unsuccessful attempt...

surfaces. In the case of balloons, lift is obtained through inherent buoyancy and the balloon may or may not be tethered. Free balloon flight has little directional...

Olly Olly Oxen Free (also known as The Great Balloon Adventure or The Great Balloon Race) is a 1978 American family adventure film directed by Richard...

The debris was from a complex and uncrewed military balloon train consisting of linked balloons and assorted equipment, operated from the nearby Alamogordo...

for his roles in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), The Black Balloon (2008) and Animal Kingdom (2010). Ford was born in Vancouver, British Columbia...

Parseval-Sigsfeld kite balloon (German: Parseval-Sigsfeld Drachenballon) was a type of non-rigid military observation balloon, designed in 1898 by August...

The Balloon Goes Up is a 1942 British second feature ('B') black-and-white comedy musical war film, directed by Redd Davis and starring Ronald Shiner...

concerning a balloon trip he took from England to Germany and on theology. His account of the balloon trip inspired Edgar Allan Poe's fictional The Balloon-Hoax...

The Yellow Balloon was an American sunshine pop band, formed in Los Angeles in 1967 by songwriter and producer Gary Zekley. The group is notable for featuring...

A snifter (also called brandy balloon, brandy snifter, brandy glass, brandy bowl or a cognac glass) is a type of stemware, a short-stemmed glass whose...

under many different common names: indistinct frog, marbled balloon frog, and lesser balloon frog. As the common names suggest, Uperodon systoma have a...

cross-linguistic onomatopoeia for snoring or sleeping A series of Zs in a speech balloon, a comic book convention for snoring or sleeping zZz, a Dutch band from...

The Canberra Balloon Spectacular, formerly known as Canberra Balloon Festival, is an annual hot air balloon festival that takes place at the lawns of the...

Balloon is a town in Mopani District Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa. "Main Place Balloon". Census 2011. v t e...

On 13 August 1989, two hot air balloons collided near Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, causing one to crash to the ground, killing thirteen...

Flight of the Red Balloon (French: Le voyage du ballon rouge) is a 2007 French-Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. It is the first part in a new...

ballooning Talking balloon toy balloon water balloon papier-mâché balloon modelling decoration solar balloon balloon mail as part of a balloon flight competition...

Plano Balloon Festival is held each September at Oak Point Park and Nature Preserve in the city of Plano, Texas. It is one of the city's largest celebrations...

"Shredding the Balloon" is a song by the Australian hip hop group, Hilltop Hoods. It was released on 20 July 2012 as the third single from their sixth...

high-altitude balloons, whose primary purpose was long-distance detection of sound waves generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests. While successful, the balloon method...

two new characters called the Puppet (also known as the Marionette) and Balloon Boy. The player can shine a light on animatronics through the camera feeds...

two types of this procedure: balloon atrial septostomy (also called endovascular atrial septostomy, Rashkind atrial balloon septostomy, or simply Rashkind's...

Several ships have been named Air Balloon for the Montgolfier Brothers' 1783 hot air balloon: Air Balloon (1784 ship) was launched in 1784 at Yarmouth...

800 feet (550 m) in a piloted gas balloon. Their pioneering use of hydrogen for lift led to this type of gas balloon being named a Charlière (as opposed...

A kytoon or kite balloon is a tethered aircraft which obtains some of its lift dynamically as a heavier-than-air kite and the rest aerostatically as a...

of the gas produced. A small but well-known use is as a lifting gas in balloons and airships. As with any gas whose density differs from that of air, inhaling...

The Yellow Balloon is a 1953 British drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Andrew Ray, William Sylvester, Kathleen Ryan, Kenneth More and...

popularity of hot-air balloons and became a balloon pilot, ascending at least three times before he disappeared while attempting a balloon ascent from Havana's...

Microhylidae. Its common names include blunt-headed burrowing frog and balloon frog. Glyphoglossus molossus is found in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand...

On July 30, 2016, 16 people were killed when the hot air balloon they were riding in struck power lines, crashed and caught fire in the unincorporated...

The Great Texas Balloon Race is an annual hot air balloon festival held in the vicinity of Longview, Texas, specifically near the East Texas Regional...

exploration of space later in the same century with the advent of high-altitude balloon flights. This was followed by crewed rocket flights and, then, crewed Earth...

The Black Balloon is a 1979 album by John Renbourn. The Washington Post wrote that, "in addition to a rhythmically engaging 13th-century English dance...

as follows:[citation needed] Video chip enteroscopy Double-balloon enteroscopy Single-balloon enteroscopy Spiral enteroscopy Wireless endoscopy Capsule...

A Balloon in Mid-Air is an 1875 aerial landscape painting by French illustrator and painter Jules Tavernier. The work is thought to be based on a gas...

27417°E / 48.84139; 2.27417 The Ballon Generali is a tethered helium balloon, used as tourist attraction and as an air quality awareness tool. Installed...

The Great Forest Park Balloon Race is an annual hot air balloon festival held in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri. With more than 70 entrants and 130...

Canada Feb 10: Deadhorse, Alaska     After the sightings of a Chinese balloon in 2023 (later shot down off the coast of South Carolina), the U.S. began...

Bravehearts Day (formerly known as White Balloon Day) is a symbol of support for survivors of child sexual abuse, created by the non-profit organization...

horizontal and vertical angles of special weather balloons called ceiling balloons or pilot balloons (pibal). Early attempts at this were made in the opening...

the late 1940s. Lamorisse's best known work is the short film The Red Balloon (1956), which earned him the Palme d'Or Grand Prize at the Cannes Film...

The Tied Up Balloon (Bulgarian: Привързаният балон, romanized: Privarzaniyat balon) is a Bulgarian satirical comedy-drama film released in 1967, directed...

Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO) is an endovascular procedure used for the treatment of gastric varices. When performing the...

42 Balloons is a musical (or rock opera) by Jack Godfrey[1]. The show is based on the true story of Larry Walters, AKA Lawnchair Larry, who fulfilled a...

Balloon Cup is a two-player card game designed by Stephen Glenn and published by Kosmos in 2003. The object of the game is for a player to win three of...

A Tale of Five Balloons (Hebrew: מעשה בחמישה בלונים, Ma'ase b'Khamisha Balonim) is an Israeli children's book by Miriam Roth published in 1974 and illustrated...

arrangement of chords and melody". The final track, "Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)", won a 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental...

pioneer of gas balloon flight, who distinguished himself in the conquest of the air in a balloon. Notable for his successful hydrogen balloon flight in Paris...

Air Balloon Music, Arts and Food Festival) is an annual music and arts festival featuring live music, food, art installations, and hot air balloons held...

designing balloons and other airships, Myers assisted him in his work and eventually took to testing their designs herself. She made her first balloon trip...

A Balloon Site, Coventry is an oil-on-canvas painting undertaken in 1942 by the British artist Laura Knight. It portrays a group of people—mostly women—working...

A rockoon (from rocket and balloon) is a sounding rocket that, rather than being lit immediately while still on the ground, is first carried into the...

flying balloon sculpture, Balloon Manor (a large-scale haunted house made entirely from balloons) and the world's largest, non-round balloon sculpture...

air balloon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A hot air balloon is a lighter than air aircraft. Hot air balloon may also refer to: Hot Air Balloon (rock...

free balloon flight, and first confirmed human flight of any kind, with François Laurent d'Arlandes on 21 November 1783, in a Montgolfier balloon. He later...

temperature, but the maximum continuous operating temperature for most balloons is 250 °F (120 °C). Hydrogen, being the lightest existing gas (0.08988...

Flying Balloon Girl, also known as Balloon Debate, is a 2005 stencil mural in the West Bank by the graffiti artist Banksy, depicting a young girl holding...

member of the Balloon Club of America, Vadala participated in 66 balloon flights, 47 flights in gas balloons and 19 flights in hot air balloons. Vadala was...

Magazine. She co-founded the Literary Death Match reading series and Black Balloon Publishing. Koch was an executive producer for the films Beasts of No Nation...

The balloon frogs are a small genus of microhylid frogs from South Asia. Balloon frog may also refer to: Assamese balloon frog, a frog found in northeastern...

Five Weeks in a Balloon is a 1962 American adventure film loosely based on the 1863 novel of the same name by Jules Verne filmed in CinemaScope. It was...

part of the American Expeditionary Forces. A balloon house was built in 1908, and in 1909, the first balloon flight took place. The military acquired additional...

Balloon Saga Station (バルーンさが駅, Barūn-Saga-eki) is a railway station on the Nagasaki Main Line in Saga, Saga Prefecture, Japan, operated by Kyushu Railway...

led to multiple mishaps involving the parade's signature balloons. A Cat in the Hat balloon collided with a lamppost, knocking off its arm and sending...

The Ferrara Balloon Festival is an annual hot air balloon festival held in Ferrara, Italy. It is regarded as one of the most prominent events of its kind...

the balloon crews that made the first Atlantic ocean crossing by balloon in the Double Eagle II and the first Pacific ocean crossing by balloon in the...

aerospace manufacturer and subsidiary which is building crewed high-altitude balloons for near space tourism. The company, headquartered in Titusville, Florida...

Balloon Museum may refer to: Balloon Museum, a travelling visual arts exhibition National Balloon Museum, a museum in Indianola, Iowa, United States Anderson...

On 23 August 2012, a hot air balloon on a commercial sightseeing flight crashed in stormy weather on the Ljubljana Marsh in central Slovenia, killing...

On 7 January 2012, a scenic hot air balloon flight from Carterton, New Zealand, collided with a high-voltage power line while attempting to land, causing...

arteries and veins. The three treatments are balloon angioplasty, cutting balloon angioplasty, and stenting. Balloon angioplasty expands the diameter of a vessel...

Race A Balloon Glow A Circumnavigational Task Tethered Balloon Rides The Alabama Jubilee Hot Air Balloon Classic, one of the oldest hot-air balloon races...

Balloon is an historic community located in York County, South Carolina, United States. It was founded in 1889 and abandoned in 1903. Former populated...

These "cath labs" are often equipped with cabinets of catheters, stents, balloons, etc. of various sizes to increase efficiency. Monitors show the fluoroscopy...

Roswell personnel had come from a weather balloon, but in 1994 Air Force historians concluded that the weather balloon explanation had likely been a cover for...

The Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta (PIHABF) is an annual four-day air-sporting event that takes place between January and February at...

The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Mounts Towards Infinity is the name generally given in English to an 1882 lithograph by French artist Odilon Redon. It...

air balloon became known as the Montgolfière type and the gas balloon the Charlière.[citation needed] Charles and the Robert brothers' next balloon, La...

Flight of the Lost Balloon is a 1961 film produced, written and directed by Nathan Juran and starring Mala Powers and Marshall Thompson. The film was...

Balloon is a brush script commonly used for signage or display purposes. It was designed in 1939 by Max R. Kaufmann, for American Type Founders, in response...

also known as Padre Baloeiro or Padre do Balão (Brazilian Portuguese for 'Balloon Priest'), was a Brazilian Catholic priest who died after a cluster-ballooning...

The Great Pershing Balloon Derby is a hot air balloon festival held each Labor Day weekend near Brookfield, Missouri. The three-day festival draws balloonists...

his lifetime and was responsible for several innovations in balloon design. His balloon, The Jupiter, carried 123 letters to make the first official...

Eubranchulus rupium, the green balloon aeolid, is a species of sea slug or nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eubranchidae. This species...

Project Manhigh was a pre-Space Age military project that took men in balloons to the middle layers of the stratosphere, funded as an aero-medical research...

are based on aerostats, primarily balloons, but occasionally airships. Flying above obstructions in the winds, a balloon could explore large regions of a...

and Captain Orvil Arson Anderson, ascended in a specially-constructed balloon and gondola named Explorer I over north-western Nebraska in an attempt...

to operate as No. 17 Balloon Centre of 33 Group (under RAF Balloon Command) which was headquartered in Sheffield. The balloons deployed from here were...

vice versa. Such flights have been made by fixed-wing aircraft, airships, balloons and other aircraft. The distance of contemporary flights varies between...

piloted by Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman, became the first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it landed on 17 August 1978 in Miserey...

balloonist and circus performer. During his career, he made 187 known balloon flights. Brooks first became involved in the circus in 1843, working for...

recognition for the extreme aerial stunts he performed beneath hot air balloons. On 23 September 2024, Boytsov organised and refereed what was described...

The Great Reno Balloon Race (GRBR) is an annual hot-air balloon race held in Reno, Nevada, at Rancho San Rafael Park, located west of the University of...

gas discharge valve, a device to release all the gas in a gas balloon to prevent the balloon from dragging after landing. Thomas Harris was an inventive...

broke the world record for the highest balloon flight and skydive of all time, releasing himself from a balloon at 135,908 feet. In 2011, Eustace decided...

French (top) and balloon whisks. Balloon whisks are bulbous; French whisks are longer and narrower....

woman to carry horses aloft using her gas-filled balloons. She was the second woman to fly by balloon over Portugal. Louise was born on 7 June 1819 in...

(née Watson; c. 1804 – c. 1864) was the first British woman to make a solo balloon flight, a feat which she accomplished in 1826. She was born in Walcot,...

system of two balloons in tandem, with a "zero-pressure" lifting gas balloon tethered to a superpressure balloon "anchor". The gas balloon is filled with...

The Two Eagles Balloon is a custom balloon designed to break world records. A January 2015 launch from Japan toward North America has officially broken...

the player can also fly or float with the aid of the Cape Feather and P-Balloon and can execute the new Spin Jump move, which allows the player to crush...

A Balloon Called Moaning is the debut extended play by Welsh indie rock band the Joy Formidable. It was released exclusively in Japan in December 2008...

On 4 June 2025, Ocean Alley announced their fifth studio album, Love Balloon. Keyboardist and vocalist Lachlan Galbraith described the album as an exploration...

for national security. In the competition, teams had to locate ten red balloons placed around the United States and then report their findings to DARPA...

Family Apocynaceae. It is commonly known as hairy balls, balloonplant, balloon cotton-bush, bishop's balls, nailhead, or swan plant. The plant is native...

subject to repair. Valvuloplasty is the widening of a stenotic valve using a balloon catheter. Types include:[citation needed] Aortic valvuloplasty in repair...

meteorological balloons. The company began production of balloons in 1937. They currently produce three types of balloons: TA is a rubber/latex balloon and was...

Fortress. It involves using an overall-type harness and a self-inflating balloon with an attached lift line. An MC-130E engages the line with its V-shaped...

for his advanced theories in the meteorological sciences as well as his balloon building. Among his aspirations were plans for a transatlantic flight....

featuring three balloon artists that aired for six episodes in early 2011. The show portrays their work for the company New Balloon Art, based in Los...

tethered helium balloons. Founded in 1993, it operates the tethered gas balloons as tourist attractions around the world. These balloons filled with helium...

Error creating thumbnail: Rainbow Ryders Hot Air Balloon Company is a hot air balloon company based in Phoenix, Arizona. It was founded by Scott Appelman...

The term kamifūsen (紙風船; literally: "paper balloon") refers to several types of paper balloons in Japanese culture. They are simple toys for children...

Toy Balloon is the 20th album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch released in 1998. All tracks composed by Bert Jansch; except where indicated "Carnival"...

Balloon (Chinese: 气球) is a 2019 Chinese drama film written and directed by Pema Tseden. It was screened in the Horizons section at the 76th Venice International...

Avorio-Prassone kite balloon (in French Avorio-Prassone Captif) was a type of non-rigid military observation balloon, designed in 1915 by Luigi Avorio...

Brésil was Alberto Santos-Dumont's first spherical balloon. The balloon introduced several innovations in aeronautics and was built for him in France by...

supposed "flying disc" debris was later identified as pieces of a weather balloon. The incident was largely forgotten until 1978, when Marcel, then a retired...

Gordon Bennett) is the world's oldest gas balloon race, and is "regarded as the premier event of world balloon racing" according to the Los Angeles Times...

260 (Balloon) Wing No. 912 (Balloon) Squadron No. 914 (Balloon) Squadron No. 924 (Balloon) Squadron No. 931 (Balloon) Squadron No. 954 (Balloon) Squadron...

independently and therefore any combination of color and fin shape is possible. Balloon mollies are a small variety with an extremely deformed abdominal cavity...

"Black Balloon" is a song by American rock band Goo Goo Dolls. It was released in June 1999 as the fourth single from the band's sixth studio album, Dizzy...

after his pregnant wife and five Sunday school children died from Fu-Go balloon bombs in the only war-related deaths in the American continent in World...

The club's name and nickname (Globo, literally "Balloon") comes from the Huracán ("Hurricane") balloon flown by Jorge Newbery in 1909. Its supporters are...

catheter with an inflatable balloon attached to its tip into an artery, passing the catheter tip beyond the clot, inflating the balloon, and removing the clot...

Borsuk–Ulam theorem states that, for a "balloon animal" (or any arbitrarily distorted shape) made out of a spherical balloon, and then squashed into a plane (letting...

National Hot Air Balloon Championship along with the "triple crown". In 1975, Levin made his first hot air balloon flight in a homemade balloon in Connecticut...

is a list of episodes of the British television situation comedy Lead Balloon. The first series of six episodes aired in 2006 and a second series, extended...

the balloon formed the basis for a New York Times visual investigation, which credited RAIC for providing the precise coordinates of the balloon at twelve...

The Saga Ballooners (佐賀バルーナーズ, Saga Barūnāzu) are a Japanese professional basketball team based in Saga. The team competes in the B.League Premier, the...

The Bluegrass Balloon Festival, formerly called the Adam Matthews Balloon Festival, was the fifth largest hot air balloon festival in the United States...

"The Day the Balloon Went Up" is the eighth episode of the third series of the British comedy series Dad's Army that was originally transmitted on Thursday...

Let the Balloon Go is a 1976 Australian children's film about a young boy with polio in 1917. In 1917 rural New South Wales, a young boy with polio struggles...

roles in Australian TV series Home and Away, the feature film The Black Balloon (2008) and in season 3 of HBO's True Detective in 2019. Wakefield's debut...

the UK after being recorded by the Dave Clark Five, retitled as "The Red Balloon". In an interview in 1972, Raymond Froggatt said that the song "becoming...

World War. In 1915 she was converted into the Royal Navy's first kite balloon ship. Later in the war the Navy had her converted into an oiler. The Admiralty...

century. His achievements included having established and led two military balloon companies in Cologne, Germany at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War...

English) was a woman who accompanied André-Jacques Garnerin on a trip by balloon on 8 July 1798 from the Parc Monceau in Paris. She was credited as the...

Australian filmmaker and writer best known for the 2008 film The Black Balloon. The Exploder was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He grew up in Perth, Western...

and member of the bands TV on the Radio, Iran, Rain Machine, and Ice Balloons. Malone grew up in Moon Township, Pennsylvania and moved to New Jersey...

MDMA (ecstasy). A swallower typically fills tiny balloons with small quantities of a drug. The balloons may be made with multilayered condoms, fingers of...

floating and logo) or foam balloon, is a stable mass of lighter-than-air soap bubbles formed into a specific shape. They are not balloons, as they have no envelope...

Katie Balloons (born September 9, 1984) is a New York City and Pocono Mountains–based balloon artist and entertainer best known for appearing in TV series...

The Great Wellsville Balloon Rally is an annually held hot-air balloon festival that takes place in Wellsville, New York on the third full weekend of...

frog, digging frog, Malaysian bullfrog, common Asian frog, and painted balloon frog. In the pet trade, it is sometimes called the chubby frog. Adults...

of shooting down enemy observation balloons, and destroyed 20 of them. Röth concentrated on observation balloons because they were large enough targets...

1862 London, Amelia Wren, a balloon pilot, and James Glaisher, a scientist, arrive for the launch of the largest balloon ever constructed. Despite being...

few occasions, endured freezing temperatures and almost drowned when her balloon crashed in a marsh. In 1819, she became the first woman to be killed in...

the two American spacecraft, launched in 1960 and 1964, were metalized balloon satellites acting as passive reflectors of microwave signals. Communication...

ability to gather weather data using hundreds of simultaneous long-duration balloons for very long-range global scale numerical weather prediction in preparation...

of the 2020 census. Indianola is home to the National Balloon Classic, a nine-day hot air balloon festival held annually in the summer, the Des Moines...

Red Hot Organization. A solo album from Sitek under the moniker Maximum Balloon was released on September 21, 2010, on Interscope with individual songs...

have been created live during an auction." His 2006 painting of Girl with Balloon unexpectedly self-destructed immediately after it was sold at auction....

Explorer II was a crewed U.S. high-altitude balloon that was launched on November 11, 1935, and reached a record altitude of 22,066 m (72,395 ft). Launched...

The Malta 2021 Stratospheric Balloon was a stratospheric upper-atmosphere weather balloon launched on 13 August 2021 from the Esplora Complex in the small...

untethered hot air balloon. She was born in Lyon, France, on 8 March 1757. On 4 June 1784, eight months after the first crewed balloon flight, Thible flew...

performed scientific high altitude research missions with unmanned rockets and balloons, and has developed the required mechanical and electrical systems. Their...

Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL, sometimes called Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses) was a NASA...

1979, escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a homemade hot-air balloon during the Inner German border-era, when emigration to West Germany was...

Livan Smurf (Chinese: 睿蓝蓝气球; pinyin: ruìlán lán qì qiú; lit. 'Livan blue balloon') was presented in August 2025. It is scheduled to launch in China in 13...

tethered balloon ascents to British Army personnel at Aldershot 1878 - Balloon experiments are conducted at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich 1880 - a balloon section...

scenic artist at Vauxhall Gardens. He is now known for his paintings of balloon ascents. Large-scale painting was an innovation at Vauxhall Gardens tried...

city by hot-air balloon, but this myth has been definitively disproven by full review of the crew and passenger records of each balloon which left Paris...

leading an attempt to reach the Geographic North Pole by hydrogen balloon. The balloon expedition was unsuccessful in reaching the Pole and resulted in...

Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon is a children's video game developed by Capitol Multimedia, published by Broderbund and released in 1996 for the Macintosh...

military aviation. The balloon hangar at Fort Barry was completed on June 27, 1921. The 24th Balloon Company moved its balloon into the new structure...

The Temecula Valley Balloon and Wine Festival is held annually, the first weekend of June at Lake Skinner Recreation Area in the Temecula Valley AVA of...

after the first balloon flights of the Montgolfiers, and presented to the French Academy of Sciences. This concerned an elliptical balloon (ballonet) 84...

the balloon crews that made the first Atlantic Ocean crossing by balloon in the Double Eagle II and the first Pacific Ocean crossing by balloon in the...

Balloon Man is the debut album by English saxophonist Iain Ballamy, with Django Bates, Steve Watts and Martin France. It was released on the EG label...

balloon burst in a thunderstorm and the envelope acted as a parachute and all survived. An ascent in July 1843 nearly ended fatally when his balloon came...

Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards in the Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We've Slipped On...

The Super-pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) is a highly stabilized, high-resolution telescope that operates in the stratosphere via...

The Berlin scientific balloon flights (Berliner wissenschaftliche Luftfahrten) were a series of 65 manned and 29 unmanned balloon flights carried out between...

Belle (G-AVTL) was the name given to the first modern hot air balloon in Britain. The balloon was created from an idea developed by members of the Bristol...

Globus Aerostaticus (Latin for hot air balloon) or Ballon Aerostatique (the French equivalent) was a constellation created by Jérôme Lalande in 1798....

The Balloon (Japanese: 風船, Hepburn: Fūsen) is a 1956 Japanese drama film directed by Yūzō Kawashima. It was adapted by Kawashima and Shōhei Imamura from...

The Ascent of Lunardi's Balloon from St George's Fields is a c.1788 oil painting by the British artist Julius Caesar Ibbetson. A mix of landscape and...

continents, the first person to fly to the North Pole in a balloon, and the first person to make a balloon crossing of the Atlantic in an open basket. David Hempleman...

notification system is typically used. In Windows 2000, Microsoft introduced balloon help-like passive pop-up notifications, tied to the notification area of...

Germany and German-occupied Europe with free-flying balloons. It made use of cheap, simple balloons filled with hydrogen and carrying either a trailing...

The Warren County Farmers' Fair Balloon Festival was started in 2001 and takes place during the week of the County Fair in Warren County, New Jersey....

Atlantic Balloon Crossing is a video game written by Dean Powell for the TRS-80 and published by The Software Exchange in 1979. It was originally printed...

A balloon flange girder is a form of vertical I-beam wrought iron plate girder, where the top flange, instead of being a simple flat plate, is extended...

published in August 1851 under the title "Science for families. A Voyage in a Balloon" (French: "La science en famille. Un voyage en ballon") in Musée des familles...

mission to investigate Venus, where each would release a lander and a balloon probe, and later conduct a flyby of Halley's Comet. The flyby of Halley's...

participated in the Project Manhigh and Project Excelsior high-altitude balloon flight projects from 1956 to 1960 and was the first man to fully witness...

Balloon Experiments with Amateur Radio (BEAR) is a series of Canadian-based amateur radio high-altitude balloon experiments by a group of amateur radio...

observed the first unmanned balloon flights by the Montgolfier brothers. He then moved to London and launched the first unmanned balloon in Britain on 4 November...

red-fruited species of Rubus originally from Japan. Common names include balloon berry and strawberry raspberry. Rubus illecebrosus is a thorny shrub growing...

Kaloula assamensis, also known as Assamese balloon frog or Assam narrow-mouth toad, is a species of narrow-mouthed frogs found in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh...

Air Balloon was launched in 1784 at Yarmouth as a coaster. She was captured in 1797. She then disappeared from United Kingdom records until 1824. She...

significant advances in the materials and construction of high-altitude balloons after World War II. Winzen emigrated to the United States in 1937 and spent...

Dakota, south-west of Rapid City. In 1934–1935 it housed a stratospheric balloon launch site, initially known as Stratocamp, sponsored by the National Geographic...

principle of a balloon within a balloon. The outer balloon represents the airship's outer envelope or gasbag, while the red inner balloon represents the...

Hot Air Balloon is a rock opera written in 1998 by Jon Gutwillig, guitarist and founding member of The Disco Biscuits, a Philadelphia based trance fusion...

(27 May 1846 – 2 January 1924) was an early British military pioneer of balloons. He was an officer in the King's Royal Rifle Corps and Royal Engineers...

inventor. He is best known for the invention of the embolectomy catheter (or balloon catheter), which revolutionized the treatment of blood clots (emboli)....

advanced options such as mechanical support devices (such as an intra-aortic balloon pump or left ventricular assist device). Cardiogenic shock is a condition...

Thought Balloon Mushroom Cloud is the second studio album by American hip-hop musician MC Paul Barman. It was released in 2009. Faraone, Chris (January...

created balloons in the 1950s and 1960s that were used by the United States Navy in its Projects Helios, Skyhook, and Strato-Lab. Balloons were also...

Notable annual events include the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, the largest balloon festival in the world, the Gathering of Nations, the largest...

War I, the unit was part of the Balloon Section, American Expeditionary Forces, becoming the first American balloon company to reach the Western Front...

fly in a balloon and land in a parachute. He was also the first Indian to take up ballooning as a profession. His daring acts with the balloon and the...

stratosphere over New Mexico, United States, in capsule N502FB carried by helium balloon before free falling in a pressure suit and then parachuting to Earth. The...

balloon was launched on 12 September 1783. Réveillon delivered a special and colourful wallpaper, used as a cover for the balloon. A second balloon,...

of record-breaking trans-oceanic hot air balloon flights and attempts to be the first to fly a Rozière balloon around the Earth – all with British entrepreneur...

Armband (swimming aid) Balloon Balloon helicopter Balloon rocket Balloon tank (for rockets) Thundersticks Toy balloon Water balloon Balloon (aircraft) Balls...

five singles: "Sumo", "Percs", "Clout Cobain", "Vengeance", and "Black Balloons". The album received widespread acclaim from critics. In an interview with...

is a member of the band". Further sessions for "Newspaper" and "Heavy Balloon" took place at engineer Dave Way's private studio, Waystation. They recorded...

Putt-Putt and Pep's Balloon-o-Rama is a 1996 action video game developed by Humongous Entertainment. The game is part of the Putt-Putt series of educational...

hot-air balloon which soon led to manned flights. At almost the same time, the discovery of hydrogen gas led to the invention of the hydrogen balloon. Various...

access to space. An early suborbital space launch attempt using a rockoon (balloon-launched high power rocket) at the Black Rock Desert in northwestern Nevada...

is a kite balloon or kytoon designed by Sandy Allsopp in the United Kingdom in 1993. This Helikite comprises a combination of a helium balloon and a kite...

1979, when both families flew out of East Germany in a homemade hot air balloon. Following the end of the Cold War and German reunification, they eventually...

Bob Peterson, who was inspired by a design of a grumpy old man holding balloons. He was voiced by Ed Asner. Carl was created by Pete Docter and Bob Peterson...

tube with an inflatable balloon attached to its tip. The catheter is inserted into the blood vessel through a clot. The balloon is then inflated to extract...

site of the annual Balloon Fest. Recent events have had about forty balloons and drew 40,000 visitors. The Annual Centralia Balloon Festival was the event...

there. Their breakthrough came in 1982, when they performed the Naked Balloon Dance, their signature sketch, on Chris Tarrant's anarchic late-night television...

The Saga International Balloon Fiesta (佐賀インターナショナルバルーンフェスタ, Saga Intānashonaru Barūn Fesuta) is held at the beginning of November every year in Saga Prefecture...

pioneer. She is most well known for her participation in acrobatic hot air balloon shows which she performed alongside her husband, Giuseppe Silimbani, in...

tube containing several internal channels and two inflatable balloons. Apart from the balloons, the tube has an opening at the bottom (gastric tip) of the...

The 22nd FAI European Hot Air Balloon Championship was held from 13 to 17 September 2021 in Szeged, Hungary. Happened exactly 210 years ago, on June 3...

nasal septum. The techniques of sinus surgery vary from ethmoidectomy to balloon sinuplasty. They treat chronic sinusitis and nasal polyps by reopening...

Janusz remained an officer of the Polish Army. He was assigned to the 1st Balloon Battalion in Toruń. Just at the beginning of World War II, he was transferred...

tests to date in the U.S. nuclear testing program as well as high-altitude balloon tests. One nuclear test involved the largest troop maneuver ever associated...

sarcasm, irony, and deadpan humour. He wrote and starred in the sitcom Lead Balloon and hosts the panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. His UK television...

unveiled on 2 December. In November, the album's European bonus track "Red Balloon" was used in a trailer for the 2015 animated film Home, and included on...

undertake space engineering projects. Current projects include a high altitude balloon platform for near-space research and testing, a rover design for international...

L'Intrépide ("The Intrepid") is a hydrogen balloon of the Compagnie d'Aérostiers (French Aerostatic Corps) and is the oldest preserved manned aircraft...

Balloon Man Running is a 12-foot (3.7 m) tall sculpture by Sean O'Meallie, installed at Denver's Central Park station, in the U.S. state of Colorado....

adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft. He made his fortune in the financial services...

performance of suspending from a trapeze below a parachute attached to a Hot Air Balloon, which he would then and cut loose from to float back to Earth while hanging...

Brad Hayes in The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), serial killer Adam "Balloon Man" Kemper in Elementary (2012), Peter Newmans in The Late Bloomer (2016)...

Temple the Balloonist (風船少女テンプルちゃん, Fūsen Shōjo Tenpuru-chan; lit. Balloon Girl Temple) is an anime created by Tatsunoko Production. Temple is a lovely...

television and musicals. Notable roles include Makia in Five Weeks in a Balloon and Lt. Marlena Moreau in the classic Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror"...

Brian Jones, he was the first to complete a non-stop balloon flight around the globe, in a balloon named Breitling Orbiter 3. He was the initiator, chairman...

Balloon Fiesta is an annual hot air balloon festival held within the city of George Town in Penang, Malaysia. The festival, organised by AKA Balloon Sdn...

on the entire amount (including the balloon payment on the PCP). At the commencement of the agreement, the balloon payment is planned to be less than the...

Similarly, a balloon has mass but may appear to have no weight or even negative weight, due to buoyancy in air. However the weight of the balloon and the gas...

catheter or central venous catheter angioplasty, angiography, balloon septostomy, balloon sinuplasty, cardiac electrophysiology testing, catheter ablation...

In 1849 the Vulcano, serving as a balloon carrier (the precursor to the aircraft carrier), launched hot air balloon bombs at Venice, the first offensive...

professional comedian, magician, and balloon artist who holds several Guinness World Record speed records for balloon sculpting. In November 2007, Cassidy...

American inventor of the modern hot air balloon and is referred to as the "Father of the Modern Day Hot-Air Balloon." He worked for a high-altitude research...

13-year-old Edward Warren from Baltimore in Peter Carne's tethered hot air balloon in 1784. 1908 Lincoln Beachy demonstrates a dirigible over Baltimore from...

Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory) is a high-altitude balloon mission that carries an infrared telescope to measure fine-structure line...

the balloon crews that made the first Atlantic ocean crossing by balloon in the Double Eagle II and the first Pacific ocean crossing by balloon in the...

Burmese balloonist who flew a hot air balloon to many places in Burma. He flew his personally designed hot air balloon (Mee-Bone-Pyan in Burmese) in acrobatic...

Saturday is typically also when the Great Balloon Race is held, the culmination of the hot air balloon-themed BalloonFest. Recognition is given to Louisville's...

1 was a balloon designed to set a new world altitude record for manned balloon flight of around 40 km (25 miles, 132,000 feet). The balloon was named...