Vehicles3.9° S, 172.7° E
Hot-air Balloon
A hot-air balloon flies because hot air is lighter than the cool air around it.
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
How to play
Tap it to fire the burner: the balloon swells and climbs.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fire the burner | Tap | ||
| Burner | Button | ||
| Style | List | 2 choices | Stripes |
| Color 1 | Color | #e8412f | |
| Color 2 | Color | #f6c945 |
About it
A hot-air balloon flies because hot air is lighter than the cool air around it. A burner under the big fabric envelope heats the air inside, and the balloon floats up; as the air cools, it sinks again. Pilots can only go up and down, so they steer by finding winds at different heights that blow the way they want to go. The first people to fly in a hot-air balloon took off in Paris in 1783.
Tap it to fire the burner: a big flame roars, the envelope swells and glows warm, and the balloon climbs well up, then drifts back down. Pick stripes or a rainbow, and two colors, in the Splash tab.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,380 at Low, and up to 500,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
Nearby in the collection
Straight down
Through the middle of the world, the far side is Tooth, on Body.
Fall throughIt stands 3.9° from the exact far side, the closest of any Splash.