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  2. Maddie's Do You Know? - Wikipedia

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    Maddie is out and about exploring different ways to travel. She uses an underwater camera to see a boat propeller in action and an animation reveals how the propeller pushes the boat through the water. Next, Maddie visits a factory to see how a hot air balloon is made from many pieces of material sewn together. She then joins a balloon team ...

  3. Sky lantern - Wikipedia

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    The source of hot air may be a small candle or fuel cell composed of a waxy flammable material. In Brazil and Mexico sky lanterns were traditionally made of several patches of thin translucent paper (locally called "silk paper"), in various bright colors, glued together to make a multicolored polyhedral shell.

  4. Kamifūsen - Wikipedia

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    Hot-air kamifūsen in Kamihinokinai in 2015 Kamifūsen being launched at a festival in Yamagata Prefecture. The Kamihinokinai Paper Balloon Festival (上桧木内の紙風船上げ) is held in Semboku, Akita, on February 10 each year. Hundreds of very large hot-air kamifūsen, resembling sky lanterns, are flown for good luck in the coming year.

  5. This guy popping out of a giant water balloon is what dreams ...

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  6. Water balloon - Wikipedia

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    Typically water balloons are sold in quantity and often include a filling nozzle in the packaging. Many of the low cost brands use small water balloons and generic nozzles which both tend to be difficult to use. An octahedral paper water bomb. Another form of water bomb is a sheet of paper folded to form a container capable of holding water. [2]

  7. Hot air balloon lands on home after snagging on street light

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    A pilot with Hot Air Expeditions told news outlet Arizona's Family that the low-on-fuel balloon was trying to land in a nearby open field when wind changed its trajectory, moving it from the ...

  8. Hot air balloon - Wikipedia

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    The hot air balloon is the first successful human-carrying flight technology. The first untethered manned hot air balloon flight in the world was performed in Paris, France, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes on November 21, 1783, [1] in a balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers. [2]

  9. Paper airplane sets world record while flying 82-miles - AOL

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    By RYAN GORMAN A paper airplane set a new Guinness world record as it flew 82 miles this month. A team of auxiliary U.S. Air Force volunteers launched the paper aircraft from a weather balloon ...