List of balloon uses

This is a list of uses of balloons

• tiny
  • balloon catheter
  • balloon tamponade
  • Graphene balloons
• small (volume of a few litres)
  • gas balloon

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    Balloon Drop
  • cluster ballooning
  • Talking balloon
  • toy balloon
  • water balloon
  • papier-mâché
  • balloon modelling
  • decoration
  • solar balloon
  • balloon mail as part of a balloon flight competition or to spread information
  • balloon helicopter
  • balloon rocket, demonstration of rocket propulsion
  • ceiling balloon
  • decoys accompanying ICBMs in midcourse, see also countermeasure
  • A vessel for storing nitrous oxide prior to inhalation for use as a recreational drug
• medium (volume of tens to thousands of litres)
  • free flying
    • high-altitude balloon
    • hopper balloon
    • fire balloon for the transport of bombs (in World War II, FUGO-Balloon)
    • transport of propaganda (in World War II and in the Cold War)
    • ceiling balloon
    • weather balloon used with a radiosonde
  • fixed
    • for carrying advertising signs
    • to carry a radio antenna
    • toy balloon
    • research balloon

      

    • Skyhook balloon
    • superpressure balloon
  • other
    • balloon tires, for vehicles that require low ground pressures
• large (volume up to 12,000,000 litres)

  

  • free flying
    • balloon (aircraft)
      • lifting people, or daring prison escapes, usually with a hot air balloon, Rozière balloon or a gas balloon
    • airship, a steerable balloon
    • hybrid airship, which combines characteristics of heavier-than-air (HTA) technology, fixed-wing aircraft or helicopter, and lighter-than-air (LTA), aerostat technology.
    • research balloon with instrumentation, also to carry telescopes
    • rockoon, a carrier for rockets.
    • balloon satellite for space research.
    • espionage balloon for military reconnaissance
    • hopper balloon
  • fixed
    • as manned observation post (before World War II)
    • barrage balloon
    • observation balloon for military reconnaissance
    • positioning atomic bombs for bomb tests in the atmosphere
    • moored balloon