These blasted things keep burning up!! I'm still claiming the wind keeps pushing the balloons to die but the balloons don't seem even close to rising no matter how much heat we can feel in the balloon. We're pretty much done with this design but I still want to send a flaming ball of tissue high into the air!
Right now we're looking for other designs of balloons. Our engine just doesn't seem to be working so we're looking for alternatives. We're probably going to switch from hot air balloons to Chinese sky lanterns, which was actually what I really wanted when we started making these. Ever watch Tangled? That's what I want.
I think that perhaps the engine is just too heavy for the poor tissue paper. Perhaps applying the principle of burning cotton suspended in the center of the opening will get the paper balloon into the air. We'll start constructing the new model once we've decided how we're going to do it.
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