When they are not smashing drones, they could be used as hot-air rides for kids.
By deceptively word-crafted "climate and energy" legislative proposals intended to disguise carbon cap-and-tax, hot-air trading scams.
In 1783, brothers Etienne and Joseph Montgolfier made the first public demonstration of a hot-air balloon.
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My life changed overnight: We went hot-air ballooning in Italy, on a safari in Africa and out every night in his limousine for extravagant dinners.
There have been several this year alone: the largest handprint in Kuwait, the longest table in Dubai or the most people to parachute-jump from a hot-air balloon.
International Balloon Festival of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu (August 11-19): Every August, more than 125 balloonists descend on Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, midway between Montreal and Vermont, for the largest hot-air festival in Canada.
In the end, he estimates that they produce about 14 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year enough to fill a volume of about nine hot-air balloons.
Once there, you can take hot-air balloon rides over the Sonoran Desert, kayak in the Verde River or tour Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural campus and winter home, Taliesin West.
New York City is depicted in several mid-19th-century lithographs whose bird's-eye views suggest that their respective artists captured the scene from hot-air balloons, the most advanced aeronautical technology of the time.
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Heck, we'll lend the FORBES Highlander and hot-air balloons.
The HB-SIA craft was piloted by Bertrand Piccard, a co-founder of the effort, who is perhaps best known for being the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a hot-air balloon, in 1999.
I've gone up in a hot-air balloon, traveled extensively, worked for good causes in my church and taught hundreds of children to read during my 23-plus-year career as a special education teacher for Massachusetts public schools.
And the infinite emptiness of the brilliant sky above means that on the rare occasions when an object, such as a plane or a hot-air balloon, does pass through, the bright contrast lends it such a fierce intensity that it confuses the eye.
So any mechanism that acts to suppress that, i.e. warm cloudy days - or hot air - will also kill them.
Russia, Belarus and Ukraine then further delayed the endgame of the conference with an argument over so-called "hot air" - the pollution permits they were given to allow their heavy industries to thrive.
You've got hot air--the nutritional content of various grains decreases as the temperature goes up.
The British Association of Balloon Operators (BABO) - a UK trade body for commercial hot air balloon operators - said it had received an "unacceptably high" number of complaints about Go Ballooning.
In March 1999, Piccard was on the final leg of an around-the-world journey by hot air balloon the first-ever nonstop flight of its kind when his Breitling Orbiter 3 swept low over the Egyptian desert and skidded to a halt on the corrugated plains.
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With air-conditioning off, the air got hot and muggy.
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The dry, hot desert air and laid-back southwestern state of mind creates an otherworldly setting for ultimate relaxation.
As the Labour Party has been quick to point out, this discrepancy shows that the fiery Tory talk on asylum-seekers was hot air.
Back at the press base, where the 60-strong media pack have to suffer saunas, open-air natural hot springs, and an underground disco, the antics of the tiny but dedicated British contingent are gradually endearing themselves to the Italian media.
It is hot in here, the air-conditioning not yet on, the heat remembering winter.
These kid-friendly topics include taking a hot air balloon ride, baking cupcakes, or making a pizza.
This creates a jet of hot air which passes over an airfoil-shaped ramp channelling its direction.
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Exhaust from the engine consists of harmless atmospheric air, cold enough to serve as air-conditioning on a hot day.
Another issue is Ofcom, the government's media regulation body, which forbids any form of sponsorship for Hot Spot or Hawk-Eye during on-air broadcasts.
They are also some 80% quieter because the mass of slower-moving air shrouds the noisy hot gases coming from the rear of the jet.
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