We would like to thank the following people for their help on the development of this resource...

Gerald Gobet
Unisys Corporation, local balloonist, and OMSI supporter.

Mary Gobet
OMSI Volunteer, balloonist.

Ron Penner-Ash
Local educator and balloonist.

Tim Lachenmeier
Helium Balloon Engineer, hot-air balloon pilot, and WindStar team leader.

Kris Lachenmeier
WindStar team member, chemist.

Jennifer Carson
Former OMSI educator and SLN team member.

Ballooning Online!
A hot-air ballooning web page by Eric E. Goodson.

Here are some books we found to be helpful...

The Great American Balloon Book Bob Waligunda and Larry Sheehan, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1981. An introduction to the sport of hot-air ballooning. Waligunda and Sheehan provide only an introduction to the sport, and don't discuss the science or detailed principles of ballooning. But they do write a nice overview of the history of the sport.

The Handy Science Answer Book Compiled by the Science and Technology Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Visible Ink, Press, 1994. Answers to over 1,200 interesting and fun questions about science. Some of the questions ask about the science we hear about most often, like "how does ozone benifit life on earth?" Other questions probe into less traveled scientific fields, but reveal interesting science, such as "why do nine-banded armadillos always have four offspring of the same gender?"

Catalogs with all the materials you need...

Carolina Biological Supply Company

Edmund Scientific

Hands-On Science

Learning Things

Delta Education

Air Travelers reviews and awards...

Air Travelers resource developers...