NOUN
- balloon for travel through the air in a basket suspended below a large bag of heated air
How To Use hot-air balloon In A Sentence
- She crossed the Atlantic by hot-air balloon.
- The hot-air balloon consists of the bag, the hanging basket and the heating device.
- But all in all, I could understand hot-air balloon aviators' fascination with the sport.
- A funny green monster hot-air balloon.
- A puppy dropped by parachute from a hot-air balloon descends safely into the garden of a secret convent.
- He had illustrations of hot-air balloons, gliders, microlights, helicopters, of the aircraft that many of us remember from the Second World War and of the modern craft developed since those days.
- Another surreal moment came during the middle of a hot-air balloon ride over Serengeti National Park.
- The shuttle launch gantry is equipped with seven 1,200-foot-long sliding wires, each attached to a basket similar to those used for hot-air ballooning.
- He gave a trophy for long-distance hot-air ballooning in 1906 that started the modern sport (the international Gordon Bennett balloon race still continues).
- Yet, it was not until 1783 that the Montgolfier brothers in France first overcame gravity in their hot-air balloon.