25 Hot Air Balloons Coloring Pages - Free!
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Do you not think this hot air balloon drawing turned out nice? It was very entertaining to color, and if you want you can color one like this or similar to explore new techniques.
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Hot air balloons are fabulous aircraft, right? They let us rise up through the skies and observe beautiful landscapes, do you not think? Generally it is a shorter ride compared to a trip by plane.
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Hot Air Balloons coloring pages
Why color images of hot air balloons?
Have you ever seen or read about hot air balloons? Surely you have, since they are famous in books and movies. They are interesting vehicles because it does not seem like they could fly and carry several people through the sky.
But it is so, hot air balloons allow people to travel through the sky for a short period of time, and in most cases, for recreational purposes. The world surely looks beautiful from one!
Hot air balloons, unlike airplanes or helicopters, cannot travel long distances and carry so many people, which is why they are used for competitions, recreation and other purposes.
If you decide to color the hot air balloon drawings that we bring for you, you will surely learn a lot, do you know why? Because in each image to color we add valuable and interesting information about this topic.
This way you can learn something new in the comfort of your home, does that not seem incredible? It will be a lot of fun! So do not think twice and come bring these images to print and color to life.
Learn while coloring Hot Air Balloons
- Hot air balloons represented the first possibility of flight for humanity, even long before airplanes.
- Do you know how it is possible for a hot air balloon to fly? It is thanks to hot air! Since hot air rises faster than cold air, the balloon is able to fly.
- The Montgolfier brothers were the first to experiment with balloons in 1782, inspired by the rising of smoke in chimneys.
- On June 4th the Montgolfier brothers carried out the first public exhibition of an unmanned hot air balloon.
- Do you know how a hot air balloon works? It does so thanks to gases that can be lighter than air. These gases make the balloon move through the air.
- Unlike other vehicles or aircraft, a hot air balloon is neither electric nor mechanical.
- Since hot air balloons depend on the wind, you cannot control the speed at which they will travel.
- The balloon pilot can control the altitude, heating the air to raise the balloon or letting it cool down so it descends.
- The Austrian Felix Baumgartner reached a height of 39,068 meters in a hot air balloon, breaking the record in October 2012.
- Hot air balloons have appeared in literature, the most famous being the work of Jules Verne titled “Five Weeks in a Balloon”.
- The Swiss Bertrand Piccard and the British Brian Jones went around the world in a balloon in 19 days, 21 hours and 55 minutes.
- The first passengers of this means of transport were a sheep, a duck and a rooster. How crazy! They took off from Versailles in 1783.
- Some discoveries show that it was the Brazilian priest Bartolomeu de Gusmao who made the first demonstration of an aerial balloon ascent, although this invention is credited to the Montgolfier brothers.
- On April 1st, 1987, the Argentines Rodolfo Hossinger and Eduardo Pablo Aranz crossed the Rio de la Plata with a hot air balloon.
- The Montgolfier brothers did not have scientific training, but they knew the theories about the properties of air from scientists like Cavendish, which is why they carried out their experiments with paper balloons.
- On August 27th, Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers made a balloon filled with hydrogen and launched it on the Champ de Mars in Paris.
- The balloon of Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers traveled 20 kilometers and landed in Gonesse, where a group of peasants, frightened by that monster, greeted it with stones and tore it apart with pitchforks and knives.
- On September 19th Etienne Montgolfier, in the presence of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, released a magnificent blue balloon carrying a sheep and some birds.
- To make sure a human could survive at great heights, on September 19th a balloon was released at the Palace of Versailles by Etienne Montgolfier with a sheep and several birds inside. Upon descending they were unharmed.
- On January 9th each year, Americans celebrate Balloon Ascension Day.
- On February 26th, 2013, 19 British, French, Hungarian, Japanese and Chinese tourists died in a hot air balloon accident, due to a gas leak near the balloon's burner.
- On January 31st, 1996, five Germans died when the hot air balloon they were traveling in crashed in a rocky corridor over the Lauterbrunnen Valley.
- On August 8th, 1993, six people died near Aspen, Colorado, when the hot air balloon they were traveling in hit a power line and the basket came loose, falling from about 30 meters.
- The best time to fly in a balloon is in the morning, not only for the scenery, but also for the temperature and the gentle wind. As a rule, flying is avoided when there are air currents, strong winds or rain.
