Flights of Fancy, Part 1: Hot Air Balloons

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Flights of Fancy, Part 1 Hot Air Balloons

• Lynne H. Hehr
• STEM Center for Mathematics and Science Education
• Arkansas NASA Educator Resource Center
• University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

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Montgolfier Balloon

• 1782
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• 1783

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Balloons In Military Aviation
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Explorer II

• 1935
• 1st use
• of
• aerial photography

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Worlds Largest Balloon
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High Altitude Balloons
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Facts

• 1960 world original space dive Joseph
  Kittinger high altitude parachute jump
• 1978 Double Eagle II 1st balloon (helium) to
  cross the Atlantic Ocean
• 1981 Double Eagle V 1st balloon to cross the
  Pacific Ocean
• 1999 first around the world flight
• 2012 Supersonic Skydive by Felix Baumgartner

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Balloon Uses Today

• Study astronomy, magnetic fields, cosmic dust,
  biology
• Warfare
• Logging operations for hauling logs
• Fun and Sports
• Weather forecasting
• War against drug traffic

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Integration - Mathematics

• Balloonists like to fly together. Sometimes
  there will be 40 to 50 balloons flying
  together. Each balloon basket can carry 3 or 4
  people. If there are 45 balloons and 3 passengers
  in each balloon basket, how many passengers are
  there all together?

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Integration - Art

• Supply art supplies and have your students
  draw pictures to put on the sides of hot-air
  balloons that will fly over your city to
  advertise the best-ever chocolate chip ice cream.

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Integration - Writing

• Balloons are a most unusual flying machine. As
  a class pretend that you are taking a trip in a
  balloon. Write a tale of your trip.

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How To Make A Hot Air Balloon

• Glue 4 tissue sheets together 8 times
• Fold all glued sheets lengthwise
• Stack all sheets along fold
• Top with pattern and clamp together
• Cut all sheets along pattern edge
• Glue, glue, glue
• Top with tissue lid
• Bottom it with straw circle