RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
10-31-2018, 11:40 AM (This post was last modified: 10-31-2018, 11:42 AM by Bob Schroeck.)
10-31-2018, 11:40 AM (This post was last modified: 10-31-2018, 11:42 AM by Bob Schroeck.)
I remember that house+balloons! There was a video of the project. They made no bones that they weren't building a full, real house -- they just wanted the look and the cool. I'm at work right now so I don't have the time to search for it, but I'm sure by the time I get home someone will have found it already.
EDIT: They were a team of established, skilled balloonists (and designers thereof), as I recall, and the "house" is really a shell around an unusually large basket. If you look closely at the image you will see that there is a trimmed opening in the roof through which the lines to/from the balloons all go; they fix to the actual support frame somewhere in the "attic" area.
EDIT: They were a team of established, skilled balloonists (and designers thereof), as I recall, and the "house" is really a shell around an unusually large basket. If you look closely at the image you will see that there is a trimmed opening in the roof through which the lines to/from the balloons all go; they fix to the actual support frame somewhere in the "attic" area.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....