Hot air balloon burner flame against blue sky – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Hot air balloon burner flame against blue sky. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Hot air balloon burner flame against blue sky
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The flame in this picture roars upward from a balloon burner, the blue sky behind it giving the fire a sharp, almost graphic edge. Hot air ballooning dates to the late 1700s, when the Montgolfier brothers in France showed that heated air could lift a fabric envelope. Burners like the one shown here, fueled by propane in modern designs, replaced older open fires and let pilots control altitude by adjusting the heat. Photographers often return to this moment because the flame is the engine of the flight, the point where the balloon's lift is made.
| Original scan | 1,799 × 2,707 px · prints to 6 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1586769087_3bd545ce65_o Burner a4qpa |
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