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109 photos and 25 illustrations tagged balloon, from 23 members of Flickr Commons.

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• lighterthanair
• aviation
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• libraryofcongress
• observationballoon
• hotairballoon
• bldigital
• publicdomain
• navalaviation
• mechanicalcurator
• airships
• aircraft
• sandiego
• northisland
• usnavy
• pubplacelondon
• airship
• usn
• unitedstatesnavy
• barrageballoon
• blimp
• ballooning
• man
• large

Members using this tag

• SDASM Archives 40 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 38 photos & illustrations
• British Library 22 photos & illustrations
• NASA on The Commons 4 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 4 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 2 photos & illustrations
• The Field Museum Library 2 photos & illustrations
• National Library NZ on The Commons 2 photos & illustrations
• Nationaal Archief 2 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 2 photos & illustrations
• Bibliothèque de Toulouse 2 photos & illustrations
• Powerhouse Museum 2 photos & illustrations

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Just a load of Hot Air

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• plaisanter~ said:

  Oh, my! Are there more photos from this event? I’d love to see more.

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  plaisanter~ Only one or two, I'm afraid. None with an airborne balloon and this was the most exciting of the attempt to inflate it...

Spitzberg - balloon stored, tethered in shed

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 17 older comments, and then…
• beachcomber australia said:

  It looks astronomical more than igloo-ish ...

• Ilia Alshanetsky said:

  wonderful

• Sharon Corbet said:

  I don't want to imply that you are a monkey's uncle... but this picture from the wikipedia article on S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897 does seem to imply that it is a balloon tethered in a shed on Spitsbergen, Svalbard (Norway.)

• Sharon Corbet said:

  Inside the shed Departure of the balloon

• Sharon Corbet said:

  beachcomber australia Snap, yet again!

Montgomery020

from SDASM Archives

• dan_inbox said:

  Montgomery's Santa Clara glider launch from a balloon ca 1905