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Hot air balloon was one of the Engineering and technology good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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October 24, 2005	Good article nominee	Listed
June 29, 2009	Good article reassessment	Delisted

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Add "Brazilian-born" before "Portuguese priest" when referring to Gusmão

Bartolomeu de Gusmão is born in Brazil and did most of his baloon work in Brazil. He is known as a historic figure of Brazil, and it seems quite eurocentric (and even racist) to treat him as Portuguese without any mention to Brazil.

I was planning add it directly (because it is anyway the way his own Wikipedia article describes him), but the article is protected... so I am adding this here in the talk. 2A02:8071:B82:6760:A5FB:F8E4:DD92:7D56 (talk) 11:48, 20 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: History of Science

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 21 August 2023 and 8 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): NJSanta, NGrahamMST (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Jachar520, ElizaJane11, Editinglad, Afv513.

— Assignment last updated by ElizaJane11 (talk) 16:07, 27 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As part of this assignment, I am expanding the theory of operations section a bit for the various types of balloons to provide a bit more clarity and I added a picture for the hybrid balloons as well since I felt like it was missing. - NGrahamMST

Gallons wrong under Combined Mass section

It says 376 liters is 20 gallons, but it's 10 gallons. 3.785 L = 1 gallon. 2603:6082:2800:61:B132:1DAE:4014:B855 (talk) 13:55, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 11 July 2024

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[All are simple English grammar, punctuation or syntax amendments]

CHANGE The purpose of Passarola was to serve as air vessel TO The purpose of Passarola was to serve as an air vessel

CHANGE was performed at Casa da India in presence of John V, the queen Maria Anna of Austria TO was performed at the Casa da India in the presence of John V and the queen, Maria Anna of Austria,

CHANGE The notable balloonist Julian Nott, in the 1970s; hypothesized that two millennia ago, the Nazca TO The notable balloonist Julian Nott hypothesized in the 1970s that two millennia ago the Nazca

CHANGE In 1975 to support this theory, he designed TO To support this theory, in 1975 he designed TreesAreTrees (talk) 10:54, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Changes made with some additional copy editing. —Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 11:35, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Misspelling of "Buoyant"

There is a spelling error of the word "Buoyant" in the Thermal Airship section. Maverick.fap (talk) 21:48, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done —Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 23:47, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]