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 A balloon is an aircraft "lighter than air, which lift is provided by the surge of Archimedes, unlike a Aérodyne.
The principles were probably known to the Chinese, and approached by many precursors (including Bartolomeu de Gusmão). The first practical applications have been made by the French of Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier, and the physicist Jacques Charles.
There are different types of balloons:
the ball, free or connected to the ground by a cable (tethered balloon).
ballooning: hot air balloon
the charlière or gas balloon
the stratospheric balloon, a gas balloon designed to climb into the stratosphere
the ball probe
the solar balloon, a balloon using sunlight to heat inside the ball
the airship: ball bearing motors and steering him to go.
airship flexible (eg the airship "La France" Fox and Krebs, models Parseval)
semi-rigid airship (eg Lebaudy, Zeppelin NT)
rigid airship (eg Zeppelin)
The passenger of a balloon is an aeronaut. The pilot is a pilot.
Category: Aeronautical
Type: Glossaries and Dictionaries
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