Welch students get hot-air balloon lesson
Students at Naperville’s Welch Elementary School got some hands-on lessons Friday in the history of hot-air balloons and the scientific principles that allow them to fly.
Bill Baker, a pilot with RE/MAX visited the school to talk to youngsters about what it’s like to fly. He gave them a chance to walk around inside a partially inflated 75-foot-tall balloon and then took them outside to see a demonstration with the basket and burners that help send the craft soaring.
“They always are excited at the end to see the flames,” he said.
Bill Baker, a hot-air balloon pilot with RE/MAX, holds the partially inflated balloon so kids from Welch Elementary School in Naperville can walk around inside.
Bev Horne/bhorne@dailyherald.com
Kids make their way out of a partially inflated hot-air balloon as a crew from RE/MAX visits Welch Elementary School in Naperville.
Bev Horne/bhorne@dailyherald.com
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