Bottomless Hot Air Balloon
Floating above the Parc André-Citroën in Paris, France, we find a gigantic tethered hot-air-balloon. If you look closely at the shadow you can see that the “basket” has no bottom! Have the occupants plummeted to their untimely deaths?
No, rather un-dramatically this balloon’s gondola has been designed as a circular platform with a huge hole in the middle. Here’s a good gallery with some on board shots (from which I also realised that all the little rectangles of white in the park are actually people’s picnic rugs).
Thanks to Craig Simpson.
I’ve done this when I was a parisian
Great !
Yeah, that happens when you don’t make your polygons double sided.
And here, too …
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Here near Niagra Falls is another pbottomless balloon: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
The bottomless design gives maximum yourist viewing spaces for minimum wieght.
Nice! It is a helium baloon though, I guess.
There’s another balloon in Rome (it’s a smaller “twin” of the paris balloon)
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
And another one in Placemark: Brussels / Google Earth…
there is one in Istanbul on the Asian side. You better check if it is open before you go there.
There is a balloon like this is Bournemouth, UK.x
I’m guessing this is the balloon in question:
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/4355145