This jet of air functions like jet force and propels the balloon forwards. Rocket engines function according to the exact same principle: as the fuel burns inside the rocket, the gases produced escape ...

is lifted by a high-altitude balloon on each end and sports two of those turbulent-flow propellers, powered by electric scooter motors. It cost $30,000 to produce—and fully loaded weighs only 60 ...

Rather than ascend by rocket power, the HALO capsule will be carried under a massive balloon some 140 metres tall. During descent, the balloon will detach from the capsule, which will then be ...

[Becky Stern] likes to harness the power of the Sun. Most of us will immediately think of solar cells and other exotic solar energy techniques. But [Becky] shows how to make a hot air balloon ...

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About 2,400 people on Milwaukee's east side were briefly without power Tuesday night after a Mylar balloon came into contact with a power line, We Energies spokesperson Brendan Conway told the ...

But it wasn't strong winds or storms that knocked the power out. It was a mylar balloon, coming into contact with a power line. Those balloons are usually made out of some kind of thin ...

"Preliminary information indicates the balloon was trying to land in a field when a gust of wind pushed it into a power line," police said Brian Brant is an Associate Editor, Human Interest at PEOPLE.