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Message from discussion **Biased Journalism** V3no6 Henson Stealth Picket

Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine

More options Sep 30 1997, 3:00 am

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From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <d...@xemu.demon.co.uk>

Date: 1997/09/30

Subject: Re: **Biased Journalism** V3no6 Henson Stealth Picket

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In article <60plj5$6j...@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>,

William Barwell <wbarw...@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> writes:
>>A large, not extra large, latex balloon is about 12" max length.
>>I suppose weather balloons are 24" = 8 x the volume or 36" = 27 x
>>the volume---a little over 1/4 a size#1, knee-high, tank of balloon
>>gas which is 50/50 air+helium. They are expensive and fragile;
>>a binliner filled with gas and taped up might do as well.

>>I seem to remember an article in Scientific American which mentioned
>>3 or 4 binliners (using a full size#1 cylinder of gas) tied together
>>in order to loft a few Lbs of camera. Also, that might have been
>>pure helium.

> Must have been helium. I have launched bags of natural gas
>and it does not have much lift.

Sorry, I meant pure helium as opposed to "balloon gas", which
is 50/50 helium and air. The other thing you can get or make
is "inflatables" (reindeer or whatever :-> ) which are simply
a thicker unstretched PVC skin put together with "plastic cement"
glues and inflated with helium or helium/air to fly. Might be
better than either stretched balloons or binliners for holding gas.

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