Download - Flying Talk ....Talk with Air
Flying Talk..Talk with Air, Part 1: Hot Air Balloons
Lynne H. HehrSTEM Center for Mathematics and Science Education
Arkansas NASA Educator Resource Center
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Montgolfier Balloon
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Balloons In Military Aviation
Explorer II
1935
1st use
of
aerial photography
World’s Largest Balloon
High Altitude Balloons
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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