Object Details
- Physical Description
- Square balloon basket with wood base and protruding, rounded corners. Metal frame, covered in suede trim, attaches to each corner and meets at the top burner. Aluminum liquid petroleum gas (lpg) tanks are strapped to each interior corner. Interior also features suede bag, champagne bag, and wooden panel with compass, altimeter, and speed indicator.
- Summary
- Today most balloon baskets are still made of wicker and leather. To decrease weight, aluminum has replaced wood in the basket frames. In 1971, Mike Adams
- designed this rugged wicker basket. The sculptured corners safely house the fuel tanks while steel suspension cables are woven into the sides, adding rigidity.
- Long Description
- A Modern Hot Air Balloon Basket
- This basket, constructed of wicker, aluminum and leather, is a product of Mike Adams Balloon Loft of Peachtree, Georgia. Production of Adams hot air balloons began in the early 1970s and continued until Adam's death in 1985. The company had a sterling reputation for technical advances in envelope design, and baskets that combined beauty and functionality. More than two hundred years after the invention of the balloon, the finest baskets are still hand-crafted of wicker and leather.
- Gift of Mike Adams Balloon Loft
- Credit Line
- Donated by Mike Adams' and Balloon Loft
- Inventory Number
- A19761156000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- CRAFT-Balloon
- Materials
- Wicker
- Leather
- Suede
- Wood
- Aluminum
- Steel
- Non-Magnetic metal alloy
- Paint
- Cotton
- Rubber
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 119.4 × 116.8 × 254cm (3 ft. 11 in. × 3 ft. 10 in. × 8 ft. 4 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- Thomas W. Haas We All Fly
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19761156000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9d0c835a1-f70b-4c7c-933a-793f16c8aa74
