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Kidadl provides inspiration to entertain and educate your children. We recognise that not all activities and ideas are appropriate and suitable for all children and families or in all circumstances. Our recommended activities are based on age but these are a guide. We recommend that these ideas are used as inspiration, that ideas are undertaken with appropriate adult supervision, and that each adult uses their own discretion and knowledge of their children to consider the safety and suitability. Major Alastair Cosmo Burton Geddes was the most senior British Kite balloon officer to be killed during the First World War.

We were proved to be liars. We went down. The Colonel was put in a parachute harness and hitched onto a parachute. We all stood around. The command ‘Let up!’ was given. One end of the basket rose a foot or two from the ground. The Colonel’s end remained on the ground. Lousy Lydia couldn’t lift him even one foot. The old lady was dead. In a silence that could be heard, the Colonel got out and departed. Above: New Irish Farm Cemetery (CWGC). The Kite Balloon graves are in front of the 'War Stone' and can be seen in the above photograph.Despite CWGC only sometimes detailing the 'Balloonatics' in their database, an attempt has been made to produce a 'roll of honour' of all fatalities within the RFC/RAF/RNAS balloon service. In 2012, Felix Baumgartner set the record for a human-crewed balloon flight to fly at an altitude of 12.45 mi (20.05 km).

The longest balloon chain was achieved by Future Generali India Life Insurance Cooperative Limited and Big Bazaar in collaboration with G2rams India Private Limited (Pan India) in Mumbai, India, in 2011. In praise of a Colonel and a Lance Corporal. The Advance of 9th Battalion Cheshire Regiment (part of 19th [Western] Division) in the Battle of Messines 7 June 1917 by Peter Crook Above: Kite balloon view of the windlass and crew at work on ascent, Oct 1916. (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3404749) Whilst – initially - the RNAS had charge of all things lighter than air, in the autumn of 1915 responsibility for Kite Balloons in France was transferred to the RFC.Meantime, in 1914 Albert Caquot designed a new sausage-shaped dirigible equipped with three air-filled lobes spaced evenly around the tail as stabilisers and moved the inner air balloonette from the rear to the underside of the nose, separate from the main gas envelope.

The first public demonstration of a light air balloon happened in 1783. This balloon was 420 in (1066.8 cm) long and made of cloth and paper. Balloons, when filled, also carry some amount of air or gas, including helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, and oxygen. These gases are responsible for making these gas balloons go up. Modern-day balloons are made from many different materials. It is the kind of materials used in the making of the balloon which determines the stretchiness and buoyancy of that particular balloon.There are many accounts of bravery that can be related about the officers who manned these balloons. In addition, the kind of material used in the manufacturing of balloons will also decide whether your balloon will float or not if you are inflating the balloon yourself. Above: This sequence of three subsequent images by an unknown German WW I pilot shows a biplane shooting successfully at a tethered "kite" balloon flying below. The photos appeared in the leading German WW I magazine in 1918. The photo is undated Through a Glass Darkly: The Appointment of T/Lieutenant-Colonel C.J. Hobkirk DSO as GOC 14 Australian Brigade, July 1916 balloon factory’ was originally designed in 2011 as a performative assembly line (covered by designboom here). the ODL team creates their own balloon formers, which are primed with soap before being dipped into latex. the thin coat of rubber that adheres to the surface becomes the actual balloon. while it is still wet, latex colours can be mixed or the balloon can be hand-painted to achieve various visual effects. once dry the rubber is leached and vulcanized to be strengthened for inflating. in all, each balloon takes about three hours to produce.

Michael Faraday designed the first rubber balloon in 1824, which he invented for use in lab experiments. In the pre-rubber era, air balloons were made from animal bladders and animal intestines. Most of these bladders came from sea animals.

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Above: An observation balloon ready to ascend over Ypres, France, 31 Oct 1917. (Australian War Memorial Photo, E01254) People also witnessed tethered balloons even during World War II. Usually used for military and defense purposes, they are tethered to someplace to make observations. Most of them are either blimps or hot air balloons.