HIAD Facility - Application: Weather Balloon
Hydrogen ignition during the (illegal) filling of a balloon.Two men had decided to fill in a weather balloon with hydrogen in a storeroom located in the basement of a block of flats. Their idea was…
The balloon had a 3.5m external diameter envelope made of anti-tear fabric (same techniques used in full sized balloons of the same company). The inner balloon was a meteorological balloon made of…
A Worner 1000 STU gas balloon, of German registry D-OAGH, piloted by a commercial pilot was substantially damaged during landing, when the hydrogen-filled envelope came in contact with a power line,…