
Episode
Hot Air Balloon | Can't Sleep? Learn About the First Aircraft to Carry Humans
33 min
Can’t sleep? Yeah, that tracks. Might as well learn how hot air balloons work while you’re here. This episode covers the basics of hot air balloon flight, a little history, and why heating air somehow equals floating. Calm, steady reading, no effort required, just enough real information to keep your brain busy until it finally drifts off. Happy sleeping!
Read with permission from Hot air balloon, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_air_balloon), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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