As the sun started to dip toward the horizon and a golden glow was cast upon Frankenmuth Credit Union Event Field, the ...

AND THE WHOLE PROCESS OF SETTING UP A HOT AIR BALLOON TAKES A BIT. IT STARTS THE BASKET, ALSO KNOWN AS THE GONDOLA. THAT INVOLVES PUTTING THE UPRIGHTS ON THE BURNER, PUT THE BURNER UP, AND THEN WE ...

a small gasoline-powered fan will blow air into the balloon. The burner will turn on and the air in the envelope is heated. When the hot air rises, the balloon is lifted upright. To ascend into ...

The Cozad Chamber of Commerce hosted its second annual Celebrity Golf Tournament and Hot Air Balloon Festival Friday through Sunday, May 30-June 1.

Aroostook County might seem an unlikely place for a quest of international proportions, but this isn’t the first time Presque ...

On a quiet, lazy October morning, the sun rose over the Sandias, gradually stealing away the shadows covering Albuquerque. A dozen or so hot air balloons, some 1,600 feet above ground level ...

The basket of the hot air balloon caught on fire. It was still on the ground with two other hot air balloons but broke free of the tether as a flame erupted.

As the balloons gracefully ascend into the sky, the atmosphere becomes charged with excitement and anticipation. The gentle hiss of the burners, the whoosh of hot air filling the balloons ...

As the balloon becomes partially inflated, the air is heated by the burner and the balloon rises above the basket. As the sun begins to rise hot air balloons prepare to lift off at Eastman Park in ...

You fill a large envelope, what we call the envelope, which is the balloon sitting above us. You fill it with air laying on the ground and then you take a burner and you heat that air up and hot ...