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Cesar Harada’s GRM balloon kit instructions
These are the best basic balloon kit instructions, beautiful. Check out the awesome maps he got with Bonny and other grassroots mapping folks.
kite balloon futures and histories
To follow on my love of kite balloons, and the kite balloon action at the grassroots mapping list. here are a few awesome kite balloon histories.
No-tech magazine, Airships Past and Present, 1908. Look especially for details on Parseval and Sigsfeld, drachenballoon developers. There is an inflatable airship designed for logging. then in Belgium, horse-borne air war. In america, an early aircraft carrier with a balloon dome. Glamor shots reveal a counterweight in the rigging. The priapism of war.
