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2. List of balloon uses - Wikipedia

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   lifting people, or daring prison escapes, usually with a hot air balloon, Rozière balloon or a gas balloon airship , a steerable balloon hybrid airship , which combines characteristics of heavier-than-air (HTA) technology, fixed-wing aircraft or helicopter , and lighter-than-air (LTA), aerostat technology.

3. Balloon - Wikipedia

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   Decorators may use helium balloons to create balloon sculptures. Usually the round shape of the balloon restricts these to simple arches or walls, but on occasion more ambitious "sculptures" have been attempted. It is also common to use balloons as table decorations for celebratory events. Balloons can sometimes be modeled to form shapes of ...

4. Balloon modelling - Wikipedia

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   A balloon artist in Vienna, Austria A street performer doing balloon modeling in Japan, 2022. Balloon modelling or balloon twisting is the shaping of special modelling balloons into various shapes, often balloon animals. People who create balloon animals and other twisted balloon decoration sculptures are called twisters, balloon benders, and ...

5. Balloonfest '86 - Wikipedia

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   The 1988 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records recognizes the event as a world record "largest ever mass balloon release", with 1,429,643 balloons launched. [10] [11] Guinness no longer measures balloon releases. [12] Balloonfest '86 was the subject of the 2017 short documentary film Balloonfest. [13]

6. Toy balloon - Wikipedia

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   Inflated party balloons. A toy balloon or party balloon is a small balloon mostly used for decoration, [1] advertising and as a toy. Toy balloons are usually made of rubber or aluminized plastic and inflated with air or helium. They come in a great variety of sizes and shapes but are most commonly 10 to 30 centimetres (3.9 to 11.8 in) in diameter.

7. History of ballooning - Wikipedia

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   The Union Army Balloon Intrepid being inflated from the gas generators for the Battle of Fair Oaks. Hot air balloons were employed during the American Civil War. [46] The military balloons used by the Union Army Balloon Corps under the command of Prof. Thaddeus S. C. Lowe were limp silk envelopes inflated with coal gas (town gas) or hydrogen.