Seattle Ballooning is featured in the March/April South Sound Magazine. Currently, you can read about Seattle hot air balloon adventures in the print version. The online version should be up soon. Hope you all enjoy! Thank you to South Sound Magazine for the wonderful article. If you are inspired by the article, you can book
Hot Air Balloon Trivia
Your wedding anniversary is coming up fast. If you are like most people, you are less than a month from your wedding anniversary and you’re still trying to come up with something more interesting than going to another nice restaurant in Seattle. Think Sunrise Or Sunset Start this next year of your marriage at sunrise
If you are an early riser, you’ll see multiple hot air balloons launching just South of Seattle in the Auburn Valley directly in front of Mt. Rainier each morning from June through mid-October. Whether you live in Seattle or are an out of town guest, a sunrise hot air balloon ride will be the highlight
Landing a hot air balloon is both an art and a science. The science is getting the balloon to the ground with a soft landing, the art is having happy land owners and spot with easy access for balloon retrieval. Last weekend we had a flight where we flew over the White River in Auburn
If a hot air balloon lands in your yard you have the best excuse ever for being late. Just make sure you take photos to prove that it happened. This summer our goal has been to make every kid late to school/summer school at least one time. We call it hot air balloon black out
Seattle Ballooning has had an epic balloon season. We completed over 100 flights in front of Mt. Rainier, and captured some incredible photos. Check out our favorites below! Some of our favorite photos came from days with low fog on the ground with a little bit of smoke in the air from the Washington and
The 2017 Prosser Balloon Rally was fantastic. Check out this 360 degree video of our flight over the Yakima River. [embedded content] We flew East down the river valley on Saturday and Sunday morning, and flew West over hops fields on Saturday evening. Here are some of our favorite photos of the event! On Saturday
In every major city in the world, you’ll find hot air balloon companies providing rides at sunrise and sunset. How do you know which one is the safest, and which one will provide you with the best ballooning experience? As you do your research you’ll find there are low-cost hot air balloon companies and those
It’s ok to be scared of heights 7.5% of all people on the planet have some anxiety about heights. They even have a name for it Acrophobia. The good news is that we’ve taken thousands of guests flying in our hot air balloons, and almost everyone finds it peaceful and relaxing. Even folks who had
What is it like to fly a hot air balloon while a couple gets engaged? It’s amazing. As a hot air balloon pilot, I get to experience dozens of marriage proposals a summer. It never gets old and is such a privilege to be part of such an intimate moment in peoples lives. Typically I
The answer is no. Well, for one thing, the top of the balloon reaches approximately 100 degrees Centigrade (the boiling point of water), and when the rain falls on the balloon it cools it. So the pilot has to put in extra heat from the burners to compensate for the heat loss , otherwise the
by Brian Rohr, Pilot What are the best seasons and times for balloon flights in Dallas/Fort Worth? I am often asked by passengers what the best season, and the best time of day, typically is to go for hot air balloon rides in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, and why. I would like to provide some
A question we often hear is “where does the hot air balloon land?” The answer is, it depends on several factors, including: Where the Wind Carries You The wind determines where your journey in a hot air balloon ends. For example, if the wind is out of the South, Rohr Balloons will choose a launch site
The way a hot air balloon works is an amazing combination of science and nature. The science is in the parts that work with nature to give you the experience of flight. The three main parts of a hot air balloon are the basket (gondola), the burner, and the envelope. Below is a brief description of each element
Hot air rises. Heated air molecules “spread out” or expand and bounce around, and the space becomes less dense than the surrounding space. Increasing the air temperature inside the balloon envelope makes it less dense than the air, thus making it “lighter than air”. The amount of lift depends on the difference between the temperature inside and