Bottomless Hot Air Balloon
Friday, 28th April 2006 by Alex Turnbull
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 …
https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=50.864153,4.359426&z=18
Here near Niagra Falls is another pbottomless balloon: View Placemark
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) https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=41.910278,12.485989&z=18
And another one in Brussels…
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