by Kathi Leiden | Jan 15, 2016 | Helium, Helium Stunts, Helium Uses
Tom Guilmette is a cinematographer who has a creative trick for getting incredible aerial video using a few cheap materials and helium balloons. We’ll admit that when we first discovered this video, we were skeptical on how good the quality of the footage would...
by Kathi Leiden | Jan 12, 2016 | Helium, Helium News, Helium Science
There might be one way to try to find out if North Korea really detonated a hydrogen bomb: Test for helium present in the skies. Hydrogen bomb claim When North Korea released a statement announcing the detonation of a hydrogen bomb, the world immediately rallied to...
by Kathi Leiden | Dec 8, 2015 | Helium, Helium Uses
How do you train a bird to fly up to and dive attack a lure at 1,000 feet? Helium balloons! Here is how helium balloons are used to train falcons. The pride of a falconer—one who trains falcons, of course—is how high your bird can fly. Two or three hundred feet is...
by Kathi Leiden | Nov 23, 2015 | Helium, Helium Uses
Ever wonder what it takes to create the massive helium balloons of the Thanksgiving Day Parade? It’s a full-time, year-round job—check it out. All year for one day For over four decades, the helium balloons of the Thanksgiving Day Parade were made in a Tootsie...
by Kathi Leiden | Nov 20, 2015 | Helium, Helium Uses
So many giant helium balloons float down the city streets in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade®, you’d think things would go wrong sometimes. They do. A lot. Yesterday, we gave you a quick history of the evolution of the Thanksgiving Day Parade helium balloon...
