On 28/03/2014 1:28 AM, David Mann wrote:
On Mar 28, 2014, at 5:35 pm, Bill <[email protected]> wrote:
On 27/03/2014 2:38 PM, David Mann wrote:
It's amazing the lengths they'll go to to move a house around here...
http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/789/#peso
Cheers,
Dave
That is one bad ass balloon. It would be a bitch to keep in the air though.
It was descending fairly rapidly when I saw it. They were either coming down in an
old military airbase which is close to here, or the A&P showgrounds next to it.
I have no idea where they launched. The cat on the roof looked very content, it
must have been warm with all that hot air.
They may have been filming it as it was the sound of a helicopter that caused
me to look skyward.
I had the opportunity some years ago to be involved in a flight with a
shopping cart shaped balloon. Much the same shape as the one you
photographed, but very different graphics. The envelope was so heavy it
took half a dozen of us to move, and once airborne, the pilot was either
burning or we were in an ever increasing dive. It had to be watched
carefully, it was slow to climb, quick to dive, and very difficult to
pull out of a dive. IIRC, it's terminal dive rate was about 1/3 of a
normally shaped aircraft.
The aircraft that I flew, IIRC, went terminal at ~600 feet per minute,
faster than that and you weren't going to pull out of the dive, the
dhopping cart, and I presume the one you photographed, was ~200 feet per
minute, but anything over 100 felt like it just wasn't going to recover.
bill
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