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Flying A Hot Air Ballon in A Tropical Country?
I'm trying to find out an answer for a question of mine. Hot baloons are usually festivied in European and American countries, (which have lower standard temperature than in tropical countries). My question is, can you fly a hot air balloon in a tropical country (primarily in urban areas), and the comparison of the heat needed.
3 Answers
- 10 years agoFavourite answer
No matter what your location, the warmer it is the more propane it will take to heat the air in the envelope to lift the balloon. It takes less propane to fly in winter than it does in summer, for instance.
Another factor in a tropical location would be wind, though. Wind would possibly prohibit flights at all. Most hot air balloon flights are early morning and late afternoon when the wind is most calm. In tropical locations, it can be more breezy which could make it difficult to fly even then.
- ?Lv 410 years ago
Balloons develop lift from the relative difference in air temperature - whatever the outside air temp is, you just need to heat up the balloons air a certain amount over that. So the outside/balloon air temps for the same balloon in the Arctic may be 0/15C, and in the tropics, 30/45C, roughly.
- ?Lv 44 years ago
If it became into super sufficient and skinny sufficient, definite. yet you will possibly have an excellent project handling to fill it with warm air, by way of fact Mars would not have oxygen in its environment, so which you won't be able of apply the familiar fire technique. you will possibly ought to apply Martian air; in case you used compressed heated air, as quickly as released into the balloon it would depressurize and there may be a corresponding drop in temperature. What you will possibly ought to do is locate the thank you to warmth Martian air with potential different than fire, then it would upward thrust into the balloon and fill it, very gradually, and perhaps carry it off. it would must be very easy-weight, it is going to possibly no longer have the means to hold something.