The School of Ballooning was a training and test centre for British Army experiments with balloons and airships. It was established at Chatham in Kent...

territory. They could also hold small bombs for combat. The history of military ballooning dates back to the late 18th century, when the Montgolfier brothers...

The history of ballooning, both with hot air and gas, spans many centuries. It includes many firsts, including the first human flight, first flight across...

early aviation activity, the War Office issued instructions for the School of Ballooning, which had originally been formed in 1888, to be expanded into a...

Meanwhile, the British Army's School of Ballooning, later the Air Battalion Royal Engineers, acquired a small fleet of semi-rigid and non-rigid airships...

Cluster ballooning is an extreme sport and a form of ballooning where a harness attaches a balloonist to a cluster of helium-inflated rubber balloons...

become part of the new Defence Research Agency in 1991. In 1904–1906 the Army Balloon Factory, which was part of the Army School of Ballooning, under the...

cost of GPS and communications equipment, high-altitude ballooning is a popular hobby, with organizations such as UKHAS assisting the development of payloads...

Hot air ballooning is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying hot air balloons. Attractive aspects of ballooning include the exceptional...

referring to ballooning and the construction, operation, and navigation of lighter-than-air vehicles. Tiberius Cavallo's The History and Practice of Aerostation...