Glass-Bottomed Hot Air Balloon Makes Passengers Scream in Terror [Aircraft]

I definitely would like to do that glass-bottomed hot air balloon, even while its pilot and inventor says it’s a ” terrifying experience.” I don’t know why no other sadist consider this before, but flying in it needs to be truly blood-curdling.

The glass-bottomed hot air balloon is the creation of Christian Brown, the pilot who travelled around the globe in a balloon with Sir Richard Branson. Brown, who has been hot air balloon pilot for 18 years and holds the tethered altitude world record at 10,000 feet, says the experience of flying this new airship was terrifying. Knowing his previous experience, I feel him:

We’ve done tethered trials before, which typically end with passengers shrieking and screaming in fear, but that’s the first time we’ve actually taken to the skies unaided. Ordinarily, you’ll look over the threshold of the basket to see at the ground below but there is something very disconcerting about seeing it right beneath your feet.

He tried it for it first maiden flight throughout the 2010 Bristol International Balloon Fiesta. Brown added the experience ” certainly isn’t for the feint-hearted.” The balloon has been designed to fly over the Alps, where ” it can give incredible views of the scenery below.”

Having flown in a non-glass-bottom hot air balloon myself, I know I might gasp and possibly cry for my mom on this one. But I actually, really, really can’t watch for next year, where it is going to be available to the public. The experience has to be truly terrifying and surreal. [Daily Mail and Metro UK]

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