How does a Hot Air Balloon stay up?

It is really quite simple and is based on the principle that hot air rises, you will have experienced the warmer air at the kitchen ceiling when cooking if you have to change a light bulb. The balloon or envelope is filled with hot air causing it to lift off. This has to be large, for example to lift 1000 pounds of weight requires 65,000 cubic feet of air and that is big! We need to keep the Hot Air Balloon up so we have to keep replacing this with hot air as it cools; this is done with the burner which we can relate to being the engine.

Modern hot air balloons use propane in the burner to heat the air, this propane is stored in cylinders which are kept in the balloon basket, along with the passengers and the pilot. There are many different types of burner in use today, but the principle is the same for all of them, they heat the air to keep the Hot Air Balloon of the ground. So relax, when you buy your voucher from us to take your Hot Air Balloon Ride through one of the seventy local operators, just concentrate on the view and enjoy your thrill of a life time.