Sasha,s long rainge hot air balloon

Sasha,s long rainge hot air balloon
this instucterble is based on ewilhelms most exelent instructerble with a few added benifits.
recomend you do not release it with in the flight path of your local air port coz this baby goes realy high.
and in the right conditions wont come down till the sun is down as once the fuel has gone the sun seems to heat the black plastic enuff to keep it up.
 
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Step 1Bits n peaces u need

bits n peaces u need
beg borrow or steal two of the largest, thinest (crinkly noisey stuff) bin liners you can get, thick plastik may be to heavy.
cut the bottom from one befor compleatly unfolding for straitest cut and tape them together with light packing tape to create the envolope of ballon.
with strips of balsa wood make a large capital letter I shape to fit tightly in mouth of envolope, use pins to hold in place while you adjust for tight fit, remove and glue.
should be an aproxamate sqaure.
put a long needle threw middel of balsa frame with alumium foilglued in place to prevent fire .
couple bits of tape at each corner is enuff to hold envolope in place.
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24 comments
Jul 16, 2007. 1:47 PMdacker says:
This caught my eye as I was a volunteer crewman for a hot air balloon company last year, but upon reading it, I have several SERIOUS problems with it: 1 - Clearly, no proofreading was done on the text. 2 - Sending several square meters of plastic into the air to come-down "who-knows-where" is a good example of environmental negligence. 3 - The potential liability of using firelighters on an uncontrolled platform makes there use irresponsible. It's so easy to cause a grass, brush, or forest fire which can kill people, destroy property, a produce huge environmental damage.
Aug 5, 2010. 10:15 AMjustafew says:
I have to agree with safety issues addressed in this post....consider tethering the balloon and use the opportunity to teach safety AND Leave No Trace practices to your buddies and the kids with you. (Fire extinguishers were where?) Glad you shared your experiment and methods. Look like you had a great time and hopefully you will take these well intended suggestions as ways to make your next ballooning jaunt safer AND more enjoyable for all.
May 4, 2010. 12:36 PMcerealkiller76 says:
INSTRUCTABLES it's written all over the place on the site !
Feb 29, 2008. 1:20 AMVendigroth says:
How much weight can it lift? Obviously not a lot, but can you give me an extimate? Furthermore, ignore the snipers. I found this instructable very interesting. I was actually linked here from another site :D
Jan 6, 2010. 3:50 PMPikminRed says:
Speaking of snipers, I wonder if you could snipe it when its crazy high!
Jan 6, 2010. 3:49 PMPikminRed says:
Needs alot of revising WAY ALOT the three steps are confusing..
Nov 24, 2007. 8:10 AMLabot2001 says:
good instructable, but take the time to CHECK YOUR SPELLING
Jan 29, 2008. 4:30 PMDanish M1Garand says:
Download Firefox and it spellchecks as you go along. Great stuff for dummies like me.
Nov 27, 2009. 4:19 PMmikaelthemycologist says:
Firefox ROCKS!!!!! 

Let's start the chant.....   Firefox!,Firefox!,Firefox!,Firefox!,Firefox!,Firefox!......
Jan 29, 2008. 4:41 PMLabot2001 says:
yupp; thats what I got :]
Sep 21, 2008. 3:37 PMgeeklord says:
how could you set up a small, lightweight GPS system? One that either records coordinates and can be plugged int o a computer, or some sort of lng range wireless streaming. I smell an instructable......
Jul 16, 2007. 7:54 AMrimar2000 says:
Nice.
Aug 31, 2008. 5:11 PMdan and kon says:
nice. what you could do to be able to pull it down or not loose track of it is attach a fishing pole or kite string to it, so when you want to pull it down you can.
Jul 27, 2007. 2:06 AMOrionBlade says:
I can see one of these on mars. Woot! Replace the fire starters with some ammonium nitrate and sugar... so it burns without air... fills the whole thing with hot CO2, releases, and carries a camera aloft for days... without having to carry pressurized hydrogen or helium... suhweet! maybe put a camera or something on it, to record or even transmit home... and maybe a gps logger... that would be awesome!
Jan 30, 2008. 7:35 PMDanish M1Garand says:
GPS ain't gonna work on mars. No constellation of satellites whirring overhead there ya know. ;D
Jan 30, 2008. 8:43 PMOrionBlade says:
*sigh* I know. GPS only works on or near Earth. Specifically, the satellites don't whir, they simply orbit. There's no air up there, so no whirring sound. Not even a swoosh from Nike. Not yet anyhow. There is a constellation of satellites on Mars, however... they all speak the same language, and can distance-find using one another's radio signals. So, it wouldn't be a Garmin system, but you could sure use a GPS like system on Mars. More specifically, this guy who posted the instructable could duct tape a GPS receiver with a data logger to the bottom of the thing, and see how far and where it went... A-La-Radiosonde GPS on mars... bah!
Feb 9, 2008. 11:27 PMTobita says:
what if we dump soooooo much air into space, we lose the vacum.
Jan 31, 2008. 5:03 PMDanish M1Garand says:
If and when we move people to Mars permanently I don't doubt that MPS (Mars Positioning Satellites {I just made that up}) satellites that double as Iridium sat phone type comm sats will be one of the first projects no doubt. Hmm..I could write a SciFi story. OP that is a cool balloon. We made one when I was a kid out of a clear drycleaning bag with candles in it. PD got calls about the UFO.
Sep 10, 2007. 9:35 PMrc jedi says:
That eeeeww effffoh flew riiiight over mi howse. Them aalleuns did probing on mi pirate parts. Dat is whii ih cnt smell too good. sorry, couldn't help myself. I actually made consistant "D"s in spelling and grammer in school. The balloon ROCKS though. Nightflight!
Jul 16, 2007. 10:50 AMcigol says:
The plastic is very concerning. Can clog the guts of marine charismatic macrofauna. I use tissue paper. Works well. Cheers!
Jul 16, 2007. 11:31 AMHamO says:
Yes, and how long do the fightlighters burn. Do they present a fire hazard if the balloon goes down to soon. But I do like the way you are involved with your kids building something and teaching them these things. I hope they have seen this instructable on the WWW. Keep up the good work. Thanks for sharing.
Jul 16, 2007. 10:36 PMsteven07 says:
I had a go at building some of these a few years ago, the fire lighters usually burn out in about 15 miutes, And chasing after the baloon up to that time is a must.
Jul 16, 2007. 1:26 PMmanonfire285 says:
Instructerbles?!?!?! I can't even count how many misspellings there were in this INSTRUCTABLE. It was really confusing and hard to understand.

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