Hot air champions
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VISITORS to London, last week, must have blinked and rubbed their eyes at the sight of a giant sparking plug floating over the Thames, There it was, all 109 feet of it, bobbing about 117 feet above water level and attracting a great deal of attention.
It was the latest in hot air balloons, an eye catcher for Champion Spark Plugs. I'd quite forgotten they made such things, mine seem to last forever.
Anyway back to our tale, I wonder how soon it will be before hot air ballooning is banned. I'm told by John Mansell, of Balloon Stable Ltd, that the flight of the balloon is determined by the wind direction and speed over which the pilot has no control. The only control he has is on the height. The more hot air he puts into the bag, the higher it goes; come to think of it, there could have been a bit of congestion if Champion's balloon had drifted up-river to Westminster'