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Balloon Factory may refer to:

  • School of Ballooning, a late 19th-century / early 20th-century British military unit
  • The Balloon Factory, a 2006 album by British Electropop band Chikinki

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Balloon Factory

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Balloon Factory may refer to: School of Ballooning, a late 19th-century / early 20th-century British military unit The Balloon Factory, a 2006 album by...

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Royal Aircraft Establishment

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its identity in mergers with other institutions. The British Army Balloon Factory was established on Farnborough Common in the early 1900s. By 1912 it...

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School of Ballooning

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The School was sometimes known as the Balloon Factory. In 1862 two Royal Engineers officers, who had seen balloons being used in the American Civil War...

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Cameron Balloons

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Balloons. 2 April 2012. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2015. "19 jobs go as Oswestry hot air balloon factory closes"...

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Hot air balloon

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A hot air balloon is a lighter-than-air aircraft consisting of a bag, called an envelope, which contains heated air. Suspended beneath is a gondola or...

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Kubicek Balloons

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hot-air balloons and airships, the sole such manufacturer in Central and Eastern Europe and one of the largest in the world. From its factory in Brno...

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Bristol International Balloon Fiesta

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10 August 2013, they broke a balloon fiesta record after 74 balloons landed in one field near the former Somerdale Factory in Keynsham. The record was...

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Airship

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An airship, dirigible balloon or dirigible is a type of aerostat or lighter-than-air aircraft that can navigate through the air flying under its own power...

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British Army Aeroplane No 1

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1 was a biplane built by Samuel Franklin Cody in 1907 at the Army Balloon Factory at Farnborough. It made the first recognised powered and sustained...

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Aircraft

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7 September 2011. – a heavier-than-air monoplane. Frater, A.; The Balloon Factory, Picador (2009), p. 163. Wright brothers' "airship." George Griffith...

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Timeline of British military aviation

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at Chatham 1882 to 1884 - A balloon factory, depot and training school are established at Chatham 1884 - Three balloons, two officers and 15 other ranks...

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British unmanned aerial vehicles of World War I

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were RPVs. Soon after its re-purposing from the Army Balloon Factory to the Royal Aircraft Factory in 1912, designers at this Farnborough base turned their...

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Wright brothers

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coming years, Colonel J.E. Capper, later superintendent of the Royal Balloon Factory. Capper and his wife were visiting the United States to investigate...

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Lindstrand Balloons

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in the slow sales of balloons. "19 jobs go as Oswestry hot air balloon factory closes". "Lindstrand Balloons' Oswestry factory closes". BBC News. 15...

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Loon LLC

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balloon network using a special Internet antenna attached to their building. The signal travelled through the balloon network from balloon to balloon...

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Military dummy

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said to have been found by reporters. In Russia, a former hot air balloon factory has continued in the 2010s to make dummy tanks, aircraft, missile launch...

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John Capper

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Ballooning with Capper as its Commandant. At about the same time the Balloon Factory was split off and moved to a new site nearby at Farnborough and, on...

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British Army airship Beta

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constructed for experimental purposes in the United Kingdom by the Army Balloon Factory in 1910. Reconstructed as Beta II, it was used successfully by the...

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Hampshire

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(370 m) in the United Kingdom at Farnborough, then home to the Army Balloon Factory. Hampshire played a crucial role in both World Wars due to the large...

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Geoffrey de Havilland

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December 1910, de Havilland joined HM Balloon Factory at Farnborough, which was to become the Royal Aircraft Factory. He sold his second aeroplane (which...

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Short Brothers

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three balloons for the British Indian Army. The quality of their work impressed Colonel James Templer, superintendent of the Royal Balloon Factory, who...

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Aviation in the pioneer era

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England experiments with heavier-than-air flight had been made at Army Balloon Factory at Farnborough under Colonel John Capper. In October 1908 Samuel Cody...

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AC Cars

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many successful cars at Ferry Works, as well as expanding into an old balloon factory on Thames Ditton High Street. Shortly thereafter, John Weller started...

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