It Takes A Team Of 70 To Make Hot Air Balloons Safe. Here Is Why They're So Expensive

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Hot-air balloons have been around for centuries. They're certified aircraft for those looking to take the slow and scenic route, but owning one can set you back considerably - 30,000 euros for a smaller balloon, and 150,000 euros for a larger one.
At Ultramagic Balloons, half the cost is attributed to the balloon itself, known as the envelope. It can take two months to complete a safe, quality envelope. And that's just the tip of the quality-control iceberg.
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@frankchiedo4109 6 месяцев назад

i just love the voice of the presenter..so soothing

@q_ayyah 6 месяцев назад

Thank you! ❤

@headbanger1428 5 месяцев назад

@@q_ayyahWTH! No way! 😱 This is so cool 😂 Why don’t you tell us how you were cast? Have you worked in VO previously? Are you a journalist first? How many languages do you speak? So many questions, but your imprint on these mini-docs has such an impact, so… 😊

@q_ayyah 23 дня назад

@@headbanger1428 I have a background in radio-presenting; I'm a journalist based at Business Insider London, and I speak five languages 🤗 glad you enjoy, and thank you for watching our videos!

@themedicalmarvels 6 месяцев назад

I don’t think anyone has ever thought a hot air balloon was cheap? As a matter of fact, never in my life have I wondered about the cost to purchase a hot air balloon.

@kdm_entertainment 6 месяцев назад

Well now you know!

@WorldCitizenW 6 месяцев назад

It was about 65 Euro for an hour tour in Cappadocia, Turkey. It's the most amazing site for the ride looking down at all the natural fairy chimneys

@Doomemdtrader 6 месяцев назад

I've never thought of the cost either, but when they stated 30k-150k, I thought to myself "meh, that's not expensive". The cloth is not from what your t-shirt is made of, it is a special thing. It is also not just resistant to when it flies, but also when it grind on the ground if your landing wasn't that comfortable.The baskets and engine do not roll off a production line. If you buy a new Cessna 172 (small 2 seater airplane) you pay retail 400k. Sure, not everyone can afford a balloon, but I'd say if you think a second time on it, it isn't expensive.

@Buttersausage 6 месяцев назад

Lol

@ferretyluv 6 месяцев назад

Seriously. I’d be shocked if they cost less than tens of thousands of dollars.

@jonash6070 6 месяцев назад

Wait, is that a giant wine bottle balloon I see there? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 1:02

@misanthropically 5 месяцев назад

Look up the special shapes rodeos from the International Balloon Fiesta to see all the things made into hot air balloons each year.

@DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWii 3 месяца назад

I went on a balloon with a crew of 69. It crashed cause it takes a crew of 70 to fly safely.

@kendisdai23 6 месяцев назад

"Once it's in the air, a tear would be catastrophic" YA THINK?

@samamsterdam4301 6 месяцев назад

A small tear would be okay most likely. I've actually seen a balloon flying with a tear on the side and it was flapping as the air was escaping. He didn't even try to land but finished the flight with it flapping. It was about a 2 foot tear too. I was surprised. I'm sure he used more propane than usual though.

@TojiFushigoroWasTaken 6 месяцев назад

there's actually an opening at the top to let out excess hot air while descent....so a single tear wont necessarily be fatal

@smug_cat1 6 месяцев назад

I DON'T NEVER I ONLY COMMENT WITH OUT

@pirobot668beta 6 месяцев назад

When I was a kid, hot-air balloon rides were a staple at the County Fair. I don't recall any horror stories about them, only that they stopped showing up with the Fair. A few years after that, the Fair itself faded into history...

@dfpguitar 6 месяцев назад

The tethered type that just go up and down are far simpler than the kind that go on free flights.

@TheIndyspace 5 месяцев назад

@dfpguitar 😂 That's a very interesting story...Just not at all true. The balloons are exactly alike, but for the tether. The pilot qualifications and experience are actually greater in the case of flying the tethered balloon...As with a 'free' balloon, the pilot has to hold a Commercial license, but also must receive additional instruction for flying the tethered balloon, *and* has to receive an additional Endorsement for flying on a tether. ✅️

@amnesiai 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for the video, it was really cool to learn how hot air balloons are made. Honestly, I thought a lot more of the production was done by machine or factory work. Much appreciated!

@shotarosann3914 6 месяцев назад

3:37 that was not the person i was thinking of when i heard that voice

@Rathbone_fan_account 6 месяцев назад

Dude same, she's kinda sus with that voice 💀

@MADmosche 5 месяцев назад

Sounds like a dude

@MrRizzo 4 месяца назад

real asf

@patwolf5134 6 месяцев назад

I loved ballooning in New Hampshire. Before GPS it was a great job to be on the chase crew just using radios.

@patwolf5134 6 месяцев назад

I loved when a customer cancelled cause the owner would let members of the crew fly. It was so beautiful.

@doodskie999 6 месяцев назад

Costs have raised through the years I guess the price has ballooned

@citibear57 6 месяцев назад

I wish I wasn't so afraid of going high in the sky, standing inside a glorified breadbasket hanging from a balloon 😮

@boohere2 6 месяцев назад

It's ironic that this video was just uploaded and Business Insider. I say that because I just read about the hot air balloon crash that killed 4 people. It happened just recently. Like really recent (last week?). People had jumped off to go skydiving. Then there was remaining people that didn't go skydiving in the hot air balloon. 4 people died and 1 was critically injured. You can go read about it. Just type in: hot air balloon crash

@A38 6 месяцев назад

@@boohere2The really reassuring part about accidents like that is the number of motivated, safety focused individuals who come forward to help improve the industry. Thanks for your concern, you're clearly committed to the future of hot air balloons' success.

@PaulJordan318 6 месяцев назад

If get the chance to fly. Do it. I can’t even put into words what it was like🥰. It’s a group effort to pull these flights off. A lot of behind-the-scenes work. Seeing hundreds of these balloons with my own eyes was moving🥰…

@beverlylumley4150 6 месяцев назад

Informative video, thanks

@ricardorozam 6 месяцев назад

It looks like business is “taking off”!

@bripslag 5 месяцев назад

Very interesting video. Living most of my life in Albuquerque NM, which is known as the Hot Air Balloon Capitol of the World, I have been a crew member on numerous hot air balloon teams. I've worked on corporate and commercial balloons with up to 12-person baskets, but they were dwarfed by the huge basket shown in this video. I've never seen a basket that big. That basket and the balloon the goes with it are obviously designed for flying from much lower starting altitudes than we have in Albuquerque (roughly a mile above sea level).

@1.4142 6 месяцев назад

No problem staying afloat in this market

@babyboo600 6 месяцев назад

i love the narrator so much !

@q_ayyah 6 месяцев назад

Thank you! ❤

@demeter-the-great 5 месяцев назад

Damn anyone see that bottle-shaped balloon? Can’t even imagine the cost and complexity to get that unique shape flight-worthy. Incredible pieces of art and engineering!

@Marrawi01 6 месяцев назад

very interesting always wanted to know how it was constructed as it was my dream still to ride one of these hopefully one day!

@kasugasawa839 6 месяцев назад

I've never been this early for a so expensive video

@sTEALtooth 5 месяцев назад

Just watched a video about climbing Everest...nope not doing that. Now after watching this video, I find myself again thinking, nope not doing that either 😉

@geniphill 4 месяца назад

Lmaoo I just finished mount everest video 10 mins ago and now just watched this too 😂 it’s 4AM in my country

@boltonky 6 месяцев назад

Super interesting been up in a balloon a few times, but i did always question why they aren't required to have a safety parachute of some kind when its even quite common on small planes now (it doesn't need to keep you in air just slow your momentum down)

@hellosunshine2826 6 месяцев назад

Looks so fun

@LeroyBrown 6 месяцев назад

I used to chase a guy with a hot air balloon, to pick him up to ride back to his truck. In exchange he was supposed to take me or friends of mine on a flight. I helped him three times and never was invited. I should have gotten a contract. Peoples words are worthless so often!

@stoundingresults 6 месяцев назад

Just think of the karma he is going to get being up high in that ballon

@KathySmith-vd7hk 5 месяцев назад

Shame on him! Anyone who helps me fly gets a ride!

@v4riab1lity77 3 месяца назад

The third time you should have sent an arrow through the envelope 😭😭

@AdamBechtol 6 месяцев назад

Neat to see the market is growing.

@Donuts_random_stuff 5 месяцев назад

1:01 I’m willing to bet that guy in the back is also the guy that ruins family/group pictures with making funky faces

@dianaosei4871 5 месяцев назад

this is fascinating! I took a hot air balloon ride over Teotihuacan outside of Mexico City, and it's cool to see the BTS of them.

@lilitharam44 6 месяцев назад

I remember them being popular in the 1980's, in fact some flew over our pasture and nearly scared my aunt's horses half to death. I haven't seen or thought about a hot air balloon in years, of course, I'm in the U.S.

@Possum1312 3 месяца назад

That engineer seems chill as hell :>

@andrewkamoha4666 6 месяцев назад

*99 Luftballons !!!!* - _NENA_

@alopey_ 6 месяцев назад

Adriana has a 'deep' voice 🤔😁

@v4riab1lity77 3 месяца назад

3:39 i don’t think anyone saw that one coming tbh

@stoundingresults 6 месяцев назад

I learned from watching La Bamba movie ( only get on anything that flies being a new or powerful airplane.) Hot air ballons look like a gamble.

@bakerkawesa 6 месяцев назад

The price is right considering it is something you fly in.

@DeenaMilkers 6 месяцев назад

sounds like a lot of hot air to me

@tigernguyen1380 6 месяцев назад

Utmost quality must be maintained lest there be a drop in business.

@gaveintothedarkness 6 месяцев назад

So glad to see something that deserves to be so expensive. So much of the "so expensive" is because it's dont the "traditional" way which takes way longer and often isnt all that much better than mass produced stuff.

@stevenkidd6761 6 месяцев назад

Sounds like a godd hobby to get on top of. After it all goes, youll have a way to travel withought electronics.

@clarityashtons4273 6 месяцев назад

I actually had a nightmare with a bunch of hot air balloons. 😂 The size of them really intimidates me for some reason. Seeing them in person would start an anxiety attack, but seeing them anywhere else is fine.

@samamsterdam4301 6 месяцев назад

I love Balloons but I have a recuring dream where there are a bunch of them in the sky half deflated and on fire. Sometimes there are even explosions in my dreams. I wake-up pretty upset after these dreams.

@misanthropically 5 месяцев назад

If y'all like hot air balloons, the world's biggest gathering of them is every October in Albuquerque, NM. Look into the International Balloon Fiesta for the best reason to get up at 4 AM.

@BabyCovid 6 месяцев назад

What an expensive death

@andyscott5978 5 месяцев назад

Good video. Interesting to see how they’re made and they still use some old materials. But did anyone else think it was AI narration? Some of the pronunciation and intonation was a bit odd. Words like upright “up-right” and envelope “on-vell-ope” along with the intonation in some of the sentences just didn’t seem quite natural. Anyway, nice video thanks.

@oldschoolman1444 6 месяцев назад

I bet they have great company BBQ with those burners. How do you like it? Well done or chared?😊

@spencerkeys 7 дней назад

3:35 unexpected

@melodyparra2960 6 месяцев назад

Lot of money for something filled with hot air

@ricoh881227 6 месяцев назад

Until someone comes with better creations, hot air balloon will thrive.. Its about the novelty of air blowing into your face while sailing across majestic view, it is also why i think jetpack would thrive (if it ever happened in the future)... Liked a real miniature jetpacks for mass production..

@shariqqi 6 месяцев назад

paramotoring

@Sjalabais 6 месяцев назад

Oh, that pun was a long time coming, alright.

@ytty5183 3 месяца назад

ALICE is what you seek. 🤔

@jimv77 6 месяцев назад

Hot Air Balloons are expensive because there is such a small demand and small supply, and they KNOW you have that priceless desire--thus they can rip you off!

@altingashi3927 6 месяцев назад

Very good points

@andyanderson2143 6 месяцев назад

The ven diagram of people that buy hot air ballons vs. people that stuggle afford to feed themselves looks something like the moon in the orbit of earth. Starving dudes can see the other through the seams in their cardboard boxes, and the floating flotsam gloss over the suffering beneath them because it spoils the veiw.

@florin26balalau 6 месяцев назад

Imagine one of those burners defective and leaking gas and not burning only when it gets inside the balloon and then the balloon catches fire I hope there's a parachute for the balloon they just didn't show that part 😂

@Vinoth22389 6 месяцев назад

Voice volume is very low. Kindly increase it, please.

@ILikeMyPrivacytbt 6 месяцев назад

Is there a reason the narrator keeps saying anvelope instead of envelope?

@god_ynwa 6 месяцев назад

A lots of southern English say 'onvelope' too..... It makes my 'mustOche' itch and turns my 'squirts' into 'squits'. Im a northerner so I talk proper.

@andyanderson2143 6 месяцев назад

The same reason she pronounces everything differently than you do. She has an accent. Everyone does, it's a matter of perspective.

@ILikeMyPrivacytbt 6 месяцев назад

@@andyanderson2143 The accent should match the spelling, otherwise either your spelling words wrong or your saying words wrong. British people pronounce the letter a as ah so ahnvelope would be spelled anvelope. E is pronounced eh so ehnvelope would be spelled envelope and that is the correct spelling. She needs to fix her spelling or her accent, and spelling isn't likely to change. This is I try to speak in a transatlantic accent, I combine the best of both sides of the pond.

@god_ynwa 6 месяцев назад

@@ILikeMyPrivacytbt I'm assuming Andy (above) is American as he told me to visit a Taco truck in order to understand what an accent is..... I support Liverpool FC 🤣😂 🤣 I bet the narrator never says 'onveloped'.

@auro1986 6 месяцев назад

can't your automated factories make them?

@jamesguthro6219 6 месяцев назад

Homegirl got a homeboy voice

@ACloutToken 6 месяцев назад

i think hot air balloons are terrifying

@sactownism 6 месяцев назад

Don't know why people would risk their lives to fly in those balloons

@DavidOfWhitehills 6 месяцев назад

It's probably safer than being a couch potato.

@lukebroemmer3572 6 месяцев назад

It’s not remotely dangerous. The most dangerous things about a hot air balloon is the gas fan that inflates it on the ground.

@williamestroff1293 17 дней назад

@@lukebroemmer3572Here's how it works: First thing you'll be asked to do is check your brain at the door. Nobody with a functioning brain will go near one of those things. After all, it's a flammable wicker basket with a giant torch on top carrying several canisters of Liquid Propane gas. What could POSSIBLY go wrong with that?!? You will then be asked to sign an onerous Waiver of Liability leaving you and your heirs no recourse if you're hurt or killed. And they do spell out just how dangerous it really is. Think about it: If it's all "Butterflies and Rainbows", and it's THAT safe, then why is the operator unwilling to be responsible for you?? You're putting your life in their hands! And for all the regulations, and all the training, and the redundant systems they brag about, there is absolutely zero physical protection for the passengers against fire or impact. In fact, for landing, you'll be asked to crouch and hold on to a rope handle to break the impact. Go ahead ask them for the parachutes, helmets and fire retardant suits. THERE AREN'T ANY!!! So ask yourself, "Is it really worth it?????

@globalislamicreminders 6 месяцев назад

I didn't think I can trust these people especially the seamstresses!

@andyanderson2143 6 месяцев назад

Mini-skirts are made by Seamstresses. So I'd trust them with my life, no problem.

@themedicalmarvels 6 месяцев назад

@@andyanderson2143 I’m so confused what one has to do with the other? What does mini-skirts have to do with trusting a seamstress with your life?

@andyanderson2143 5 месяцев назад

@themedicalmarvels maybe the same skills that create mini skirts are also the skills that support your life a thousand feet in the air, i was just agreeing with the original commentor. Also, im sure you would agree it would make a fabulous plot point in an anime.

@elluisito000 6 месяцев назад

This video is full of hot air

@lucaswong7645 6 месяцев назад

imma steal it and go to space

@jimv77 6 месяцев назад

We shall call you Balloon Boy....

@andyanderson2143 6 месяцев назад

Couldn't take you past the surface of the atmosphere. If balloons could take you to space we wouldn't spend millions on rockets, would we.

@kaustubhraizada 6 месяцев назад

what about carbon fiber baloons

@andyanderson2143 6 месяцев назад

Only if you wanted to make them unaffordable.

@user255 6 месяцев назад

The basket is 30% of the price!? Maybe not the best idea to weave such complicate basket then. If there is metal frame anyway, then just put strong canvas around it.

@louisazraels7072 6 месяцев назад

part tradition and part cushioning the impact of landing

@user255 6 месяцев назад

@@louisazraels7072 There surely are better and cheaper solutions for cushioning. Tradition is poor reason for that, but seems to be the only one.

@lukebroemmer3572 6 месяцев назад

A lot of the time the wicker is used for cushioning the impact but some companies do use canvas it it just not as safe in case of harder landings

@andrewkamoha4666 6 месяцев назад

[Title] Why Hot Air Balloons Are So Expensive - "Why is Modern & Contemporary Art So Expensive?", _Contemporary Art Issue_ - "Why Is Apple So Expensive?", _The Cold Wire_

@DashCamera 6 месяцев назад

Fatality odds are high,liability insurance or any other form of compensation for those are more likely, so charges are, should “ so expensive “…

@DavidOfWhitehills 6 месяцев назад

Nonsense.

@elnini415 6 месяцев назад

This girl spent 10 minutes stating the obvious

@nikhileshmadapati8606 6 месяцев назад

Dr.stone ryusui

@louisazraels7072 6 месяцев назад

meh, like almost anything else presented this could cost a fraction of the price if mass produced, obviously most people don't want a hot air balloon, but at decent scale it would drop the price to probably below 15K, its a very simple product at its core, easy to automate most of it

@velfad 5 месяцев назад

I doubt anyone will invest in mass producing these because it's not a mass product, it's a touristic industry tool useful in a few select areas only. Demand might be erratic and at some point market might become saturated

@emorelix 5 месяцев назад

NO HOT AIT BALLOON IS SAFE.

@davebutlarge7458 6 месяцев назад

i am going to eat this balloon.

@DHead5150 5 месяцев назад

Glamour project for empty people.

@stunter2875 6 месяцев назад

Strange this is coming out a few days after multiple people were killed in a balloon accident.

@A38 6 месяцев назад

Why? What's strange about it? This video could've been published at any time. We can still appreciate the engineering of a hot air balloon despite a couple of very unfortunate, very dead people. You're gonna be pissed when you find out James Cameron made a Hollywood film about one of the world's great tragedies!

@velfad 5 месяцев назад

So what? lots of tourists died trying to climb Everest and still the Nepali sherpa industry is going nowhere any time soon. And HABs are hundreds if not thousands times less dangerous.

@blaze556922 6 месяцев назад

Slow, ugly, expensive and dangerous. Who wouldn't want to sign up? Not to mention on those romantic getaways you'll have an operator less than 3 ft away from you at all times. You know, intimate...

@basketballperson1350 6 месяцев назад

Next up on questions nobody had. New money yt channels desperate for content

@redbean9410 6 месяцев назад

whats up with Adriana's voice? was definitely an adrian before haha

@mrtjbiga1784 6 месяцев назад

why is the narrator 's mouth so close to the mic? like nails on a chalk board

@Troll_lol_lol 6 месяцев назад

Why to even have these balloons, it's time to get rid of them

@god_ynwa 6 месяцев назад

'Envelope' begins with an 'E' not an 'O'

@andyanderson2143 6 месяцев назад

Maybe image people from different places speak differently? Called an accent. When it gets really extreme, it becomes a different language. Go outside. Find a taco truck.

@god_ynwa 6 месяцев назад

@@andyanderson2143 Taco truck in England?? She is trying to talk in an upper class accent from the south of England. I'm a northerner living on the south coast so I hear 'onvelope' and 'mustOche' often and obviously both words are wrong. I'm very well versed in my own language.

@andyanderson2143 5 месяцев назад

@god_ynwa "obviously both words are wrong"?? Language is an ever-evolving, dynamic, nimbus sort of concept, changing quick as the tide and is just as diverse. Accents are fluid and unique as the individual using them, dialects differ greatly amongst speakers of the same language, and languages themselve can be nearly unrecognizable from one another even though they share the same roots, like latin or greek. You are like a New Yorker telling a Bostonian who lived in Maine for a while that he's pronouncing whatever he's say "wrong", when really there is no "right". Are you wrong to do math by fractions or an abacus rather than by decimals? Or measure standard rather than metric? Or *gasp* pronounce it "aluminum" rather than "aluminium" even though both are historically accurate?

@god_ynwa 5 месяцев назад

@@andyanderson2143 I didn't realise you had responded. I wasn't interested in maths so I cannot understand your last point. I was interested in words and deeply regret not taking my English teacher up on her offer to teach me Latin (life was still a nightmare). I understand the 'common' man having an accent and he will mispronounce words but not the supposed 'posh' people who are well educated. Boston..... Muyder? I like hearing that one. Aluminum as you yanks say makes me smile too.... Obviously it annoys me too because you missed the 'I' 🤣 'Posta' winds me up..... NY I guess it's probably just the posh people that piss me off. How old are you and which state do you live in? (I hope you don't mind my interest)

@dirkd7510 6 месяцев назад

Its so expensive because people are willing to pay for it. If no one paid the asking price it would either go away or the price would be lower. People are not goin to continue performing a task to make money if they are not making money. These videos are dumb. Why is something so expensive, because stupid people pay for it. There is your answer.