hot air ballon ride

At hot air ballon ride we invite you to experience the thrill of a lifetime and join the thousands of others that have flown with one of our 70 local operators. We are passionate about Hot Air Ballooning and we feel sure that you too will feel the same once you have taken your first hot air ballon rideFrom the moment of launch to the time when you make your gentle descent, you will experience the sheer joy of watching the patchwork quilt of the fields below drift by. Riding in a Hot Air Balloon is undoubtedly the oldest form of aviation and we consider it to be the most romantic, which is one of the reasons why Wedding Packages feature so highly amongst the many gift vouchers that we are asked for. For a Wedding gift, a corporate event, a work force incentive package or just a gift for yourself,will be happy to meet your needs, just purchase a gift voucher and fly from your own locality.It is really quite simple and is based on the principle that hot air rises, you will have experienced the warmer air at the kitchen ceiling when cooking if you have to change a light bulb. The balloon or is filled with hot air causing it to lift off. This has to be large, for example to lift 1000 pounds of weight requires 65,000 cubic feet of air and that is big! We need to keep the up so we have to keep replacing this with hot air as it cools; this is done with the burner which we can relate to being the engine.Modern hot air balloons use propane in the burner to heat the air, this propane is stored in cylinders which are kept in the balloon basket, along with the passengers and the pilot. There are many different types of burner in use today, but the principle is the same for all of them, they heat the air to keep the Hot Air Balloon of the ground. So relax, when you buy your voucher from us to take your through one of the seventy local operators, just concentrate on the view and enjoy your thrill of a life time.