Friday, January 26, 2007

More Blue Peter style action

I would have thought this would have been a good thing to perfect whilst st in an office today.

For this make you will need

Hot Air Balloon

SUBJECT:
Aeronautics
TOPIC: Lift
DESCRIPTION: An indoor hot air balloon made out of a plastic film dry cleaner bag. CONTRIBUTED BY: Gregory Vogt (OSU)
EDITED BY: Roger Storm, NASA Glenn Research Center

MATERIALS:

Dry cleaner plastic film bags (select a bag with the thinnest possible plastic and have several on hand. You may have to experiment with bags of different thicknesses.)
Several small paper clips
Cellophane tape
Heat source (Blow dryer, sterno, backpacker camp stove, etc.)
Matches
Three feet of aluminum heat duct (if using open flame heat source)
Electric drill (to put holes in the heat duct)

The complete instructions here http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/TRC/Aeronautics/Hot_Air_Balloon.html

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