Compressed helium tanks aren’t permitted on planes in the United States. Although helium is non-flammable, large compressed ...

Maybe it was the idea of reducing emissions in the air travel sector, or maybe just the private jet-style interior, but I ...

Don and Brian Cleaver are the father-and-son team from Toms River who launched a Jersey Shore aeronautical adventure into the heavens from Jackson.

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Wānaka, New Zealand, for two scheduled flights to test and qualify the ...

A helium-filled balloon is tethered at Flyger’s Hut ... and black carbon from the lowest layers of the atmosphere—lower than an airplane can fly safely. This story appears in the September ...

It’s pretty easy to take a balloon, fill it up with helium, and send it up in to the upper atmosphere. It’s much harder to keep track of it and recover it when it falls back to Earth.

Cracker question because helium balloons are actually a pretty controversial topic. Some people argue that they are harmful to the environment because on returning to Earth, animals mistake them ...

It takes 90 minutes to an hour to fill a weather balloon with helium or hydrogen, get it fitted with a sensor, then ready it for launch making sure the radiosonde doesn’t drag on the ground ...

The vast, helium-filled balloon which gives its famous curves ... The cabin can be kitted out with rows of seats like you’d find in a plane, to get 130 people from A to B with a better view ...