We would make some really neat and sometimes controversial balloons using a big dry cleaning sack with a lattice of plastic straws at the mouth with small candles on the straws. Heat and light all in one package. They had a glow like a firefly jelly fish and went very very high on especially cold clear and still nights on winter campouts.
Our troop was prone to extreme campouts. Did you know you can drive a tent peg with a banana under certain conditions?
“…We would make some really neat and sometimes controversial balloons using a big dry cleaning sack with a lattice of plastic straws at the mouth with small candles on the straws…”
I did that in 1967. Caused quite stir in the neighborhood. 😂😂😂
Same here. But you missed the boat!!
Dry cleaner bags are for rookies! Thin painters drop cloths are where it is at!
Our largest was 4 of them ironed together (not too hot to melt the drop cloth to the iron). Then gathered together to an aluminum wire ring. Then a gondola of sterno.
It inflates to the size of a van and looks like a flying amoeba.
It takes some patience and practice to get it to fly. But we have tracked them more than 15 miles!
I’m mid 60s but my high school friends and I still buy a case of beer and go flying UFOs a couple times a year!!