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This remarkable colour photograph of hot air balloons at the inaugural Paris Air Show was taken in 1909 by Léon Gimpel, using the Autochrome Lumière process, the first commercial process for colour photography #globalmuseum #photography #Paris #Ballooning

Anmeldungen für Viersener Ballonwoche 2026

Die Viersener Ballonwoche lädt Besucherinnen und Besucher zu einem unvergesslichen Erlebnis für die ganze Familie ein. Vom 21.…
#Moenchengladbach #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Mönchengladbach #Ballonwoche #ballooning #erleben #Erlebnis #Germany #Heißluftballon #Informationen #Luft #mitzuerleben #Nordrhein-Westfalen #skytours #Täglich #Viersen #Viersener
https://www.europesays.com/de/974265/

Pic of the day: Olympus Trip 35 and Lomography X-Pro Chrome 100 film. I can see my house from here.
#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #ballooning

China’s ballooning debt heightens deflation risks

Miniature condominiums are put on display at a showroom in Zhengzhou, China. Consumers have slowed housing purchases amid a weak…
#Economy #ballooning #business #China's #debt #deflation #heightens #risks
https://www.europesays.com/2659956/

China’s ballooning debt heightens deflation risks

Miniature condominiums are put on display at a showroom in Zhengzhou, China. Consumers have slowed housing purchases amid a weak…
#NewsBeep #News #Economy #AU #Australia #ballooning #Business #chinas #Debt #deflation #heightens #risks
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/374015/

China’s ballooning debt heightens deflation risks

Miniature condominiums are put on display at a showroom in Zhengzhou, China. Consumers have slowed housing purchases amid a weak…
#NewsBeep #News #Economy #ballooning #Business #China's #Debt #deflation #heightens #risks #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/337358/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/253170/ China’s ballooning debt heightens deflation risks #ballooning #Business #China's #Debt #deflation #Economy #Éire #heightens #IE #Ireland #risks

AUSTRALIA 🕷️
Lo que parece un paraíso invernal es, en realidad, una impresionante migración de millones de arañas emprendiendo el vuelo mediante un proceso llamado “ballooning” (vuelo arácnido).
Durante finales del verano y principios del otoño, las arañas liberan finas hebras de seda y dejan que el viento las transporte a través del paisaje.
El resultado es una capa surrealista de seda, similar a la nieve, que cubre campos y árboles — una técnica de migración inquietante pero inofensiva que la naturaleza realiza con total facilidad. hastaghs

Increíble espectáculo de la naturaleza: millones de arañas surcando el aire con su “ballooning”, cubriendo campos y árboles con finas hebras de seda que parecen nieve. ❄️🕷️

#arañas #ballooning #migracionaracnida #naturalezaasombrosa #insectosvoladores #otoño #verano #fenomenonatural #sorprendente #paisajeinvernal #curiosidades

AUSTRALIA 🕷️
Lo que parece un paraíso invernal es, en realidad, una impresionante migración de millones de arañas emprendiendo el vuelo mediante un proceso llamado “ballooning” (vuelo arácnido).
Durante finales del verano y principios del otoño, las arañas liberan finas hebras de seda y dejan que el viento las transporte a través del paisaje.
El resultado es una capa surrealista de seda, similar a la nieve, que cubre campos y árboles — una técnica de migración inquietante pero inofensiva que la naturaleza realiza con total facilidad. hastaghs

Increíble espectáculo de la naturaleza: millones de arañas surcando el aire con su “ballooning”, cubriendo campos y árboles con finas hebras de seda que parecen nieve. ❄️🕷️

#arañas #ballooning #migracionaracnida #naturalezaasombrosa #insectosvoladores #otoño #verano #fenomenonatural #sorprendente #paisajeinvernal #curiosidades

AUSTRALIA 🕷️
Lo que parece un paraíso invernal es, en realidad, una impresionante migración de millones de arañas emprendiendo el vuelo mediante un proceso llamado “ballooning” (vuelo arácnido).
Durante finales del verano y principios del otoño, las arañas liberan finas hebras de seda y dejan que el viento las transporte a través del paisaje.
El resultado es una capa surrealista de seda, similar a la nieve, que cubre campos y árboles — una técnica de migración inquietante pero inofensiva que la naturaleza realiza con total facilidad. hastaghs

Increíble espectáculo de la naturaleza: millones de arañas surcando el aire con su “ballooning”, cubriendo campos y árboles con finas hebras de seda que parecen nieve. ❄️🕷️

#arañas #ballooning #migracionaracnida #naturalezaasombrosa #insectosvoladores #otoño #verano #fenomenonatural #sorprendente #paisajeinvernal #curiosidades

AUSTRALIA 🕷️
Lo que parece un paraíso invernal es, en realidad, una impresionante migración de millones de arañas emprendiendo el vuelo mediante un proceso llamado “ballooning” (vuelo arácnido).
Durante finales del verano y principios del otoño, las arañas liberan finas hebras de seda y dejan que el viento las transporte a través del paisaje.
El resultado es una capa surrealista de seda, similar a la nieve, que cubre campos y árboles — una técnica de migración inquietante pero inofensiva que la naturaleza realiza con total facilidad. hastaghs

Increíble espectáculo de la naturaleza: millones de arañas surcando el aire con su “ballooning”, cubriendo campos y árboles con finas hebras de seda que parecen nieve. ❄️🕷️

#arañas #ballooning #migracionaracnida #naturalezaasombrosa #insectosvoladores #otoño #verano #fenomenonatural #sorprendente #paisajeinvernal #curiosidades

#Seattle #Ballooning exhibition by Green Lake

WindBorne's #CEO bravely admits that their balloon might have freaked out some pilots, as if claiming the skies for themselves wasn't enough 🌬️🎈. Meanwhile, the article attempts a groundbreaking feat: proving that #JavaScript is the new air we breathe, without which websites are just sad blobs of text. 🥴💻
https://twitter.com/johndeanl/status/1980462264974209292 #WindBorne #Innovation #Ballooning #Aviation #HackerNews #ngated

Albuquerque: Balloonist Paradise

Albuquerque, New Mexico’s unique weather characteristics make it a popular destination for hot-air balloonists. While balloonists can control their altitude by warming or venting the air in their balloon, their horizontal travel comes at the mercy of the wind. (Just ask the erstwhile Wizard of Oz.) What makes Albuquerque special is a combination of topography, dry air, and altitude. Together, these features create the “Albuquerque box,” a circulation that gives south-flowing drainage winds below north-flowing prevailing winds.

The key to the box’s flow is a temperature inversion, where cooler, denser air is trapped near the surface and lighter, warmer air sits above. This typically occurs after a night of clear skies when much of the ground layer’s warm gets radiated away to space — something that’s easily done in high, dry altitudes.

Temperature inversions like this don’t last very long, though; by late morning, the sun’s warmth will dismantle the Albuquerque box. Still, it is a frequent enough occurrence, especially in the stable atmospheric conditions common in the autumn, that the city hosts an International Balloon Fiesta every October. (Image credit: B. Bos; via Physics Today)

#Albuquerque #ballooning #fluidDynamics #meteorology #physics #science #temperatureInversion #wind

View from a hot air balloon

https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/1hot-air-balloons/hot-air-balloons-village-sea-basket-landing-sports-gas-heights.htm

#ballooning #travel #village #adventure

🌬️🕷️🕸️ #yupie

Watch a #ballooning #spider take #flight #yt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrS0igctMi0

Proxy Link.:

https://invidious.reallyaweso.me/watch?v=JrS0igctMi0

Up, up into the blue sky, over the inn, over the island. You are free to be whoever you want here; a pirate captain, an accountant, an innkeeper. The air is warm, the zephyrs are gentle. This is your world now.

Isn’t it everything you ever wanted?

- from Borne Before the Wind, a superlative work of Our Flag Means Death fanfiction by the illustrious slantedlight for the OFMD Reverse Bang x

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67221466/chapters/173621533

#watercolour #ofmd #art #ballooning #18thcentury

Laughing Gas Parties Have Chilling Consequences: The expanding gas triggers thermal mouth and throat lining damage. #nitrousoxide #laughinggas #whippets #ballooning #frostbite
https://www.instagram.com/p/DMYejqzMmN6/

The early history of #ballooning in #Ireland: https://www.reddit.com/r/IrishHistory/comments/1lqmzfl/irish_ballooning/

Overview.
Teotihuacán, #EstadoDeMéxico #México
#PreHistoric #UNESCO #ballooning #pyramid

"Since the race’s inception, nine pilots had perished from mountainside crashes, unexpected plummets, or rogue lightning storms."

An excerpt from the new Atavist Magazine story, "The Balloon That Fell From the Sky," by Nick Davidson: https://longreads.com/2025/04/03/balloon-race-belarus-disaster/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Nonfiction #Journalism #TrueStory #Ballooning #Balloon #Race #Belarus

Landing in the evening near Castle Pyrmont.

Sunshine Ballooning
#balloon #ballooning #sunshineballooning #blue #castlepyrmont #burgpyrmont #wanderlust2020

(Ursprünglich am 13. Juni 2020 auf Instagram gepostet.)

It's #FollowFriday !

Meet StratoCat, an Argentina-based independent source of historical data and news on the development of stratospheric balloons for scientific research, aerospace & military applications, and commercial exploitation of near space. Online since 2005.

The website also publishes the newsletter "World Balloon News"

https://stratocat.com.ar

#fedi22 #Ballooning #NearSpace #Science #Research #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Technology #Cosmology #Astrodon #Space #Academy #Stratospheric

❄️ Artist: #DavidZinn in City: #AnnArbor MI USA 🇺🇸 01/2025 - Title:
🟡 "Benny's tree-climbing days are
behind (and soon to be beneath)
him." 🎈🐿️
🔴 "Bennys Baum-Kletter-Tage liegen
hinter ihm (und bald unter ihm)."
#StreetArt #Art #Chalkart #Artist #SidewalkChalk #Squirrel #Ballooning #GoodMorning ☕🥐

A busy stratosphere over CONUS this morning.

#HBAL689 over WA just left the #Idaho area on which was providing connectivity for firefighting efforts.

#HBAL698 & #HBAL700 arrived to the East coast from #Morocco after taking part in Arcane Thunder 24 military exercise

The rest of the flotilla continues to wander across the great plains.

All #balloons are of the #Thunderhead type launched and operated by #Aerostar

#Ballooning #Technology #RemoteSensing #Stratos #Science #Space #NearSpace

Barely know anything about scientific ballooning and associated R&D activities in India. They appear to regularly give presentations on TIFR Balloon Facility but not sure how to access these..

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022cosp...44.3358B/abstract

https://app.cospar-assembly.org/2023/browser/presentation/33046

#Ballooning #TIFR #NearSpace

Just had a random idea for my bucket list: On a bright spring morning, I want to have a champagne breakfast in a hot-air balloon, sailing over the countryside.

#Ballooning #Aeronautics #Champagne #Breakfast #BucketList #CrazyIdeas

Just had a random idea for my bucket list: On a bright spring morning, I want to have a champagne breakfast in a hot-air balloon, sailing over the countryside.

#Ballooning #Aeronautics #Champagne #Breakfast #BucketList #CrazyIdeas

Just had a random idea for my bucket list: On a bright spring morning, I want to have a champagne breakfast in a hot-air balloon, sailing over the countryside.

#Ballooning #Aeronautics #Champagne #Breakfast #BucketList #CrazyIdeas

Just had a random idea for my bucket list: On a bright spring morning, I want to have a champagne breakfast in a hot-air balloon, sailing over the countryside.

#Ballooning #Aeronautics #Champagne #Breakfast #BucketList #CrazyIdeas

HASP mission terminated at 0:46 UTC

A rare sight on most plane tracking apps: the descending balloon encircled by the chase plane that departed earlier from Albuquerque.

The balloon flight is terminated from the plane that sends a signal to separate the payload from the balloon and confirms visually the opening of the parachute.

#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Science #STEM #Research #Technology #Astrodon #Space #Stratospheric #NASA #HASP

8 hours into the flight HASP balloon is crossing above the Rio Grande.

The image from above is impressive.

#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Science #STEM #Research #Technology #Astrodon #Space #Stratospheric #NASA #HASP

Fiesta's in October...but today there were a few aloft, keeping their hand in. Barely 50 F on the ground; probably pretty cold up there by NM standards. (Maybe warmed a little by the burner fired up to gain altitude...)
#NewMexico #Ballooning #RioRancho #Sandias

Sceye Inc. launched a new mission for its Stratospheric Airship this morning from its hangar in the Roswell Industrial Air Center in New Mexico.

The airship is currently over Texas airspace.

Real-time tracking: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a6838f

#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Science #Research #Technology #Stratospheric #Sceye #Airship

Hot air balloons in the early morning stillness ponder so slowly through the world! This video is from 2009 when a number of experimental balloonists held a convention in Amherst MA. My daughter and I filmed this very early in the morning from the Coolidge bridge looking south over the Connecticut River.

Some of the balloons: Hopper, Chariot, and Airship Rally

#Ballooning

https://makertube.net/w/qdZSMKSn799mGvqQPAQT9z

Ultra nubes aliquando.

#SilentSunday #Sky #Ballooning

Yesterday, Aerostar launched a Thunderhead balloon from its balloon launch facility near Hurley, South Dakota.

The craft is moving eastbound across the midwest states.

Real time tracking: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a2680b

#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Technology #Space #Stratospheric #HBAL714

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#fedi22 #Ballooning #Balloon #Science #STEM #Research #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Technology #Cosmology #Astrodon #Space

The BALMAN mission was successfully performed today. At 4:00 UTC, the balloon was launched from the observation point "Colibri" near the Ariane 6 launch pad of the Centre Spatial Guyanaise in Kourou.

After reaching an altitude of 17.8 km the mission was terminated and the balloon impacted in the Atlantic Ocean, 42 km NE of Kourou.

The total flight time was 3 hours.

#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Science #Research #Technology #Astrodon #CNES #HEMERIA #CSG #Stratospheric #BALMAN

Hawkhill: the thread about its House and the marvellous things that once went on there

If old gate piers could talk, they could tell many a tale of who once passed through them, could they not?
There’s an old gate pier on Lochend Road. What would it tell us if it could? Would it have interesting tales to tell? Shall we find out?

So why is there a Georgian gate pier leading to 1980s housing? Well of course there used to be a Georgian house here before there were 1980s houses. Given this area is known as Hawkhill, the house was sensibly called Hawkhill House. The name Hawkhill is descriptive and literal – there was once a hill here were hawks must have dwelled. It’s mentioned as Halkehill in 1560, and shown as Halkhill in Adair’s map of 1682.

Once part of the Barony of Restalrig, these lands found their way into the possession of Lord Balmerino after the Logans were dispossessed of them. He in turn lost them – and his head – for his part in the Jacobite rising of 1745. The Crown gave (or sold) them on to Trinity College & Hospital, who feud a small estate of 20 acres off of them at Hawkhill in the 1750s.

The feuar was Andrew Pringle, Lord Alemoor, a judge, senator of the College of Justice, Solicitor General for Scotland and a Lord of Session. “He had an unrivalled reputation as a lawyer and pleader“. He was the son of John Pringle, Lord Haining of The Haining in Selkirkshire, who also was a respected judge and one time Senator of the College of Justice.

Alemoor had John Adam, son of William and older brother to Robert and James, build him a small but perfectly formed villa on the land. Overshadowed as an architect by his younger brothers, John was more involved in the business administration, but was nevertheless a fine and competent architect. Hawkhill was squat but perfectly formed, topped with two large and distinctive chimneys.

A later description from its sale notes:

“two lofty and finely-proportioned public rooms, library, five bedrooms, two dressing rooms, hot and cold baths, large kitchen, laundry, and other accommodation is supplied… There is a lodge for the gardener; stable, coach-house and other offices which are all ample; also a high-walled garden, well stocked and productive, and a large greenhouse. There is about 2 and a half acres of detached garden ground, bounded for 400 yards on the north side by a high wall planted with good fruit trees. The remainder of the property consists of a park of about 10 acres, and the shrubberies, in which there are some fine old trees.”

A description of Hawkhill in 1867

Alemoor was a man of letters. Sir Adam Ferguson took James Boswell to sup with him at Hawkhill. The latter was reportedly left impressed. He was “a very spirited and successful improver” and kept a fine garden, planted a good stock of trees and had a large parkland for sheep. But after the law, Alemoor’s main passion was science. He was supported in this by his factor, James Hoy. He had an observatory erected on the top of the Hawkhill to the latest designed by John Smeaton. We can see it and the house poking out in a late 18th century watercolour

Alemoor had Hoy take and keep regular, accurate temperature records for 7 years. Hoy kept this practice up at Castle Gordon where he went next to work and his data set was used to help calculate the first accurate, average temperature for Scotland. On June 4th 1769, Alemoor, Hoy and Dr James Lind (something of a polymath and also known as a silhouette artist1) observed the transit of Venus across the sun, each using a different telescope and each keeping time accurately. The Astronomer Royal commended their results as particularly accurate. This was an event of major world scientific importance – Captain James Cook had been sent all the way to Tahiti to observe it – and perhaps the first “crowd-sourced” scientific endeavour?

1. Dr James Lind, 1736-1812, an Edinburgh Doctor and not to be confused with Dr James Lind 1716-1794, the Edinburgh Doctor known for investigations into scurvy. I made this mistake myself and am indebted to Emma Schmidt for the correction. ↩︎

Alemoor died in 1776, the house passing to his brother who likely sold it to pay of their fathers’ debts on the home estate of The Haining. It came into the possession now of Captain Gideon Johnstone, RN. Gideon had been a captain at the Battle of Chesapeake Bay in 1781 but never got another command again after that. He retired to Hawkhill, dying there in 1788. The house passed to his brother John Johnstone of Alva, “a corrupt Nabob of the East India Company“.

Johnstone went to India as a clerk, avoided the “Black Hole of Calcutta” which claimed his brother and found himself as an artillery officer. He worked his way up to being a provincial governor but returned from India in a scandal, fired by his former friend General Clive on the subject of taking bribes from local princes. He therefore came back overshadowed but fabulously rich, so retired to a quiet life as a country gentleman of leisure on the estate of Alva.

Hawkhill was given to his niece, Elizabeth – Betty – Johnstone, on the left in the painting above. She was the youngest sister of Margaret Johnstone, Lady Ogilvy, who was sentenced to death after the ’45 for her part in encouraging her husband in his support of the rising. He fled to France and she did the same, escaping Edinburgh castle by swapping clothes with her washer woman and walking out the gate. Aunt Betty was unmarried but doted on by her nieces. They took Aaron Burr to visit her, who wrote in his diary “Pretty place. View of the Forth.” he noted he had a sumptuous meal and Madeira wine. This would be about 1808. Who was Aaron Burr? He was an America lawyer and politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States. He is noted for having “assassinated” Alexander Hamilton (former Secretary of the Treasury) in a duel in 1804. He was in Europe on a self-imposed exile.

Betty died of old age at Hawkhill in 1813. She passed away during a thunder storm, looking to the sky and remarking “Sirs, what a night for me to be fleeing through the air” before expiring. She is buried with the Fergusons of Pitfour, also of her family, in Greyfriars. Hawkhill went to her cousin, James Raymond Johnstone esg. of Alva, who had inherited John Johnstone’s estate and ill gotten fortune from India. He gave it in life rent to his sister Ann Elizabeth and her husband James Gordon of Craig, an Advocate.

Ann Elizabeth died at Hawkhill in 1851, at which point the whole estate was put up for sale. The advert noted that the lands had value in quarrying and felling the trees planted by Alemoor.

The lands were now split up. The hill of Hawkhill itself began to be quarried for its whinstone for use in street paving setts. Alemoor’s trees were felled and his sheep park was dug up for clay to feed a brickworks built on the site. Worse was to come when a tallow melting works was built in the eastern portion of the park land. The works belonged to Alexander Beveridge of Leith; “margarine manufacturer and tallow melter, employing 17 men and 13 women” and a member of The Incorporation of Candemakers of Edinburgh.

The reek from the tallow works and dust from the quarrying both ended up in court cases from disgruntled neighbours. The “Tallow Melting Case” found in favour of the works, and the works and the stench went on.

Thomas Field, “slate merchant, brick and tile maker and quarry master” lost his case and the brickworks was ordered to shut; quarrying went on however. In 1877, three boys were hospitalised in Leith after playing with blasting powder from the quarry. A young woman working in the Tallow Works lost an arm to machinery in 1877 in horrible circumstances.

The site of the closed brickworks was sold off and became the Hawkhill Recreation Fields, a commercial enterprise. It was used for amateur sports, professional football, dog racing, as a showground and fairground. Then on 1 October 1888 something quite incredible happened at Hawkhill…

At 5:15PM, the slight figure of “Professor” James Baldwin strode across the field, packed to capacity. In one hand he had a “parachute umbrella” in the other he took hold of a trapeze suspended from a hot air balloon. Then the balloon was let go…

The balloon rose quickly to 1,200 feet and Baldwin let go of the trapeze. He fell 300 feet before opening his “umbrella”. He fell to the ground, landing gently and exactly where he wanted to.

Baldwin was a circus acrobat, tightrope walker and all round daredevil with a keen interest in ballooning. This was a trick he had first performed the year before in the US and he had brought it to Europe. It was a sensation and he made a fortune.

Baldwin made the first ever parachute jump in the US in 1887. In 1888 he made the first in the UK. The Houses of Parliament were suspended in order that members could go see for themselves before deciding whether or not to ban his act as suicidal. On the 1st October 1888, he made the first parachute jump in Scotland at Hawkhill.

Such was the popularity of the act, that Hawkhill exceeded capacity. The proprietor of the next door farm at Lochend, Fanny Jackson, successfully sued Baldwin’s organisers for £30 for damages done to gates, fences and crops by the crowds who invaded her farmland. Ten years later on July 5th 1899, a balloon jumper act returned. This time it was Miss Alma Beaumont, “Lady Parachutist” who leapt from the skies as part of a huge show and fair put on at Hawkhill to coincide with the Highland Show.

In 1890, a balloon was flown from Edinburgh International Exhibition at Meggetland and came down safely at Hawkhill grounds. From 1888 to about 1900, Hawkhill House itself was used as a residential boarding house, run by “Mrs Donaldson, late of Wooton Lodge, Cumin Place, the Grange“. By 1902 it was owned by Jonathan Newey & Sons, who ran a firelighter manufacturing business on the site. The quarry was worked out by about 1913, having completely consumed the Hawk Hill in the process (in case you’re wondering where it went as it’s quite clearly no longer there). In 1924, Leith bakers J. Smith & Sons built a modern, industrial bakery there. It later became part of the Sunblest empire.

The recreation grounds were bought after WW1 by the Leith Education Authority for use as school and public playing fields. Amateur football was allowed to continue, but professional sport and dog racing was banned. They continued to let the park out for sheep grazing. In 1920 they came into possession of the Edinburgh Education Authority, who tendered for “100 carts of good black soil” to be delivered to improve the playing fields. Many a local school, scouts and amateur sporting event would take place there over the next 70 years. When Leith Academy moved it its new site, it got on-site playing fields (“Academy Park”), and Hawkhill Fields were sold off for housing. Alemoor Crescent and Park were built, recalling the house’s first Laird, Andrew Pringle.

The tallow melting works closed in 1968, taking its stench with it, and was replaced by the council housing “multis” of Hawkhill Court and Nisbet Court (the Nisbets of Craigentinny were an old local landowning family, but never actually of Hawkhill.)

Hawkhill House by this point was unoccupied but remarkably much of its original John Adam Georgian interiors were still in place, if somewhat decrepit. The Georgian Society campaigned to preserve it.

But it deteriorated further and was soon bricked up not long after that photo study, it is looking very sad in the photo below taken in the early 1970s, not long before it was demolished in (I think) 1972. The site was added to the playing fields.

We can see 130 years of transition at Hawkhill in this animated overlay of maps.

Before finishing, I’d like to just say thanks to the ever helpful and knowledgeable Fergus Smith for the quick lesson (late) last night about how property could, or could not be, inherited in Scotland before 1868. It really helped me with this and saved a lot of time in working out some of the ownership. Thanks Fergus!

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The #Stratollite launched by World View a few days ago experienced a #failure in flight that prevented the #balloon from being located in most plane tracking apps. That increases the #mystery around the last day's #sightings of the odd-shaped #vehicle.

It's a return to the old days of #ballooning when location systems were rudimentary. When one balloon couldn't be found, whoever launched it looked for news about #UFO sightings in the area to get a general presumption of their location.

Aerostar established a new record with one of their Thunderhead balloons being aloft for 200 days and counting.

Mission HBAL676 launched on March 28 from the firm's winter Lodge in Santa Fe County, is still floating 60 kft above the Pacific Ocean.

The previous record was 156 days aloft.

https://aerostar.com/news/aerostar-thunderhead-balloon-system-achieves-200-days-of-stratospheric-flight.

#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Science #Research #Technology #Astrodon #Space #Stratospheric #Aerostar #Thunderhead

Yesterday, October 9th, Aerostar performed another launch of a Thunderhead balloon.

On a first for the company, the balloon was launched from the Beecroft Weapons Range in New South Wales, Australia.

The site is administered by the Australian Defence Force for use as a live-firing range.

Real-time tracking: https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N256TH

#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Military #Research #Technology #Space #Stratospheric #Thunderhead #Aerostar #BeecroftWeaponsRange

Aerostar launched today from TCOM's Manufacturing & Flight Test Facility located in Elizabeth City (NC) a #Thunderhead balloon.

The craft with callsign #HBAL710 is floating now over the Atlantic Ocean at 60.000 ft.

This is the first time that the Sioux Falls-based firm launches from there.

Real-time tracking: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=aceb11

#Aerostar #Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Science #Research #Technology #Stratospheric

Aerostar just launched a Thunderhead balloon that is moving eastbound NE of Ruidoso (NM).

According to the NOTAM issued the vehicle with callsign HBAL706 was released at 2:20 UTC from a site located 4 Nautic Miles NE of Sierra Nevada Regional Airport.

Real-time tracking: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a26454

#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Technology #Stratospheric #Thunderhead #Aerostar

Impressive image of Aerostar's Thunderhead balloon HBAL643 obtained yesterday over Oologah Lake, Oklahoma, US by Damon's Droneography photographer from the Tulsa metro area.

The balloon, launched on May 26 from Cross City, Florida has been in flight so far for 40 days

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1045390310919986

#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Science #STEM #Research #Astronomy #Technology #Cosmology #Astrodon #Space #Stratospheric #Thunderhead #Aerostar #Tulsa #Oklahoma #UFO #UAP

Warsteiner Montgolfiade 2009 – Abendstart
Vom 04. bis zum 13. September 2
https://privatarchiv.rzgierskopp.de/2009/09/warsteiner-montgolfiade-2009-abendstart/
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Warsteiner Montgolfiade 2009 – Abendstart
Vom 04. bis zum 13. September 2
https://privatarchiv.rzgierskopp.de/2009/09/warsteiner-montgolfiade-2009-abendstart/
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#Ballonfahren #Ballonfahrt #FirmenInWarstein #GebudeInRthen #GebudeInWarstein #KsterHansMartin #Landschaft #PfarrkircheStPankratius #RthelThomas #Rthen #Sport #StadtRthen #StadtWarstein #Warstein #WarsteinerBrauerei #WarsteinerInternationaleMontgolfiade #Wasserturm #Werbung #BallonteamThomasRthel #Balloon #Ballooning #nl2412

Warsteiner Montgolfiade 2009 – Abendstart
Vom 04. bis zum 13. September 2
https://privatarchiv.rzgierskopp.de/2009/09/warsteiner-montgolfiade-2009-abendstart/
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#Ballonfahren #Ballonfahrt #FirmenInWarstein #GebudeInRthen #GebudeInWarstein #KsterHansMartin #Landschaft #PfarrkircheStPankratius #RthelThomas #Rthen #Sport #StadtRthen #StadtWarstein #Warstein #WarsteinerBrauerei #WarsteinerInternationaleMontgolfiade #Wasserturm #Werbung #BallonteamThomasRthel #Balloon #Ballooning #nl2412

Warsteiner Montgolfiade 2009 – Abendstart
Vom 04. bis zum 13. September 2
https://privatarchiv.rzgierskopp.de/2009/09/warsteiner-montgolfiade-2009-abendstart/
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#Ballonfahren #Ballonfahrt #FirmenInWarstein #GebudeInRthen #GebudeInWarstein #KsterHansMartin #Landschaft #PfarrkircheStPankratius #RthelThomas #Rthen #Sport #StadtRthen #StadtWarstein #Warstein #WarsteinerBrauerei #WarsteinerInternationaleMontgolfiade #Wasserturm #Werbung #BallonteamThomasRthel #Balloon #Ballooning #nl2412