Balloon (aeronautics)

In aeronautics, a balloon is an unpowered aerostat, which remains aloft or floats due to its buoyancy. A balloon may be free, moving with the wind, or tethered to a fixed point. It is distinct from an airship, which is a powered aerostat that can propel itself through the air in a controlled manner.

Many balloons have a basket, gondola or capsule suspended beneath the main envelope for carrying people or equipment (including cameras and telescopes, and flight-control mechanisms).

Principles

A balloon is conceptually the simplest of all flying machines. The balloon is a fabric envelope filled with a gas that is lighter than the surrounding atmosphere. As the entire balloon is less dense than its surroundings, it rises, taking along with it a basket, attached underneath, which carries passengers or payload. Although a balloon has no propulsion system, a degree of directional control is possible through making the balloon rise or sink in altitude to find favorable wind directions.

Balloon

A balloon is a flexible bag that can be inflated with a gas, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, oxygen, or air. Modern day balloons are made from materials such as rubber, latex, polychloroprene, or a nylon fabric, and can come in many colors. Some early balloons were made of dried animal bladders, such as the pig bladder. Some balloons are used for decorative purposes, while others are used for practical purposes such as meteorology, medical treatment, military defense, or transportation. A balloon's properties, including its low density and low cost, have led to a wide range of applications.

The rubber balloon was invented by Michael Faraday in 1824, during experiments with various gases.

Applications

Decoration or entertainment

Party balloons are mostly made of a natural latex tapped from rubber trees, and can be filled with air, helium, water, or any other suitable liquid or gas. The rubber's elasticity makes the volume adjustable. As shown in the photo to the right, they can come in different colors like the rainbow such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, etc.

List of Beavis and Butt-head episodes

The following is an episode list for the MTV animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head. The series has its roots in 1992 when Mike Judge created two animated shorts, "Frog Baseball" and "Peace, Love and Understanding", which were later aired on Liquid Television of the Mike Judge Collection DVDs (see related page for a detailed listing).

Series overview

Episodes

Shorts (1992)

Both shorts originally aired as part of Liquid Television and did not include music videos.

Season 1 (1993)

Mike Judge himself is highly critical of the animation and quality of these episodes, in particular the first two – "Blood Drive"/"Give Blood" and "Door to Door" – which he described as "awful, I don't know why anybody liked it... I was burying my head in the sand."

Season 2 (1993)

Season 3 (1993-94)

Season 4 (1994)

Season 5 (1994–95)

Season 6 (1995–96)

Season 7 (1997)

Starting this season, the show switched to a 7-minute short act, with most of the shorts running approximately 5 minutes with one music video at the end.

Balloon (film)

Balloon is a 1982 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Ravi Gupthan. The film stars Mammootty, Jagathy Sreekumar, Mukesh and Kaviyoor Ponnamma in lead roles. The film had musical score by M. K. Arjunan.

Cast

  • Mammootty
  • Jagathy Sreekumar
  • Mukesh
  • Kaviyoor Ponnamma
  • Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair
  • VT Aravindakshamenon
  • Kalaranjini
  • Baby Ponnambili
  • Jalaja
  • Shobha Mohan
  • TG Ravi
  • Soundtrack

    The music was composed by M. K. Arjunan and lyrics was written by Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair.

    References

    External links

  • Balloon at the Internet Movie Database
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