Netted Gas Balloon Model STL

A historic gas balloon of the kind flown from the late eighteenth century onward. The round envelope is wrapped in a raised diamond-pattern net, with a valve stem on the crown. Lines run down from the net to a load ring, and below the narrow filling neck hangs a cylindrical basket ringed with round sandbags for ballast. Gas balloons, filled with hydrogen or coal gas rather than hot air, first flew in 1783, the same year as the first hot air flights. The net spread the weight of the basket over…

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