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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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   Balloon rockets work because the elastic balloons contract on the air within them, and so when the mouth of the balloon is opened, the gas within the balloon is expelled out, and due to Newton's third law of motion, the balloon is propelled forward. This is the same way that a rocket works.

4. High-altitude balloon - Wikipedia

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   High-altitude balloons or stratostats are usually uncrewed balloons typically filled with helium or hydrogen and released into the stratosphere, generally attaining between 18 and 37 km (11 and 23 mi; 59,000 and 121,000 ft) above sea level. In 2013, a balloon named BS 13-08 reached a record altitude of 53.7 km (33.4 mi; 176,000 ft). [1]

5. 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 ...

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. Tethered balloon - Wikipedia

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   A balloon is a form of aerostat, along with the powered free-flying airship, although the American GAO has used the term "aerostat" to describe a tethered balloon in contrast to the powered airship. [1] Tethered balloons have been used for advertising, recreation, observation, and civil or military uses.

8. Barrage balloon - Wikipedia

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   US Marine Corps barrage balloon, Parris Island, South Carolina, in May 1942 A barrage balloon is a type of airborne barrage, a large uncrewed tethered balloon used to defend ground targets against aircraft attack, by raising aloft steel cables which pose a severe risk of collision with hostile aircraft, making the attacker's approach difficult and hazardous.

9. Rotating locomotion in living systems - Wikipedia

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   A wheeled buffalo figurine—probably a children's toy—from Magna Graecia in archaic Greece [1]. Several organisms are capable of rolling locomotion. However, true wheels and propellers—despite their utility in human vehicles—do not play a significant role in the movement of living things (with the exception of the corkscrew-like flagella of many prokaryotes).