Balloon Chat
Uncategorized Boards => Balloon Chit Chat => Topic started by: Graham Lee on March 14, 2014, 01:04:54 PM
I'm just about to set off for Cambridge to help Caroline, Bubbly Maths with her attempt for a world record in balloons.
Details about the record are here, https://www.facebook.com/Pyraloons (https://www.facebook.com/Pyraloons)
and this is Caroline's facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/BubblyMaths (https://www.facebook.com/BubblyMaths)
Could have met you for a drink! Hope it goes well.
Just a couple of pictures from yesterday and today in Cambridge, will post many more over the coming week.
David and I setting up, we were the early birds, and the finished triangle thing :) ;)
So a few pictures form the Friday night, David and I arrived at 4.30 to help set up and get the ball rolling.
Steve making the first metre tall Pyraloon (I thought they were called something else though?)
A little in joke with Caroline and I and her walking in the room with the clock :)
The balloons they were a pilling up, this is Elizabeth who helped throughout the weekend.
Back at the hotel Caroline and I recreated a famous picture that we took many years ago coming back from the millennium jam with Caroline's suitcase contents all over the place
as she had mis-placed her passport. Not sure what she was looking for this time but we both smiled from the happy memories that this picture brought back to us both :)
How many balloons were used? What was the records? It looks really high and freestanding. Final question, did you actually break the record?
Ignore my last comment, just seen the Facebook link at the top. Off to have a look :oops:
2048 balloons were used they were 350's. The record was I believe 4m and this I thought was measured at just over 8m on the day but Caroline sent this from the official adjudicators,
ACTUAL MEASURED DIMENSIONS
NUMBER OF UNIT TETRAHEDRA 1024
EDGE LENGTH 9.45 metres
EDGE LENGTH 31 feet
ALTITUDE OF TRIANGULAR FACE 8.2 metres
ALTITUDE OF TRIANGULAR FACE 26.8 feet
VERTICAL HEIGHT 7.2 metres
VERTICAL HEIGHT 23.6 feet
So I do believe that once all the official rigmarole has been gone through then yes we did break the record.
Congratulations - it looks great!
:D
There was sponsorship by The English Cream Tea company so at 6am Saturday morning we were all having a Cream Tea Breakfast :)
Where the tetrix was to be built, the floor was a slight problem with popping the balloons, plastic bags to the rescue.
Did you work all night on this as well??
I think it was from 4.30 till 10.30 Friday night and then 6.00am till 5.00pm Saturday.
Anna came along and even brought some lovely donuts for a late breakfast early lunch :) Here we are all tucking in.
David made the coat of arms for Cambridge University
The space begins to fill up,
The gang all together except for Mark who took the pictures.
The first and last picture is where I was making up the pyramid's, the four on the table then made the half a metre larger pyramid in picture three and this was the first one on Sat morning that I put together.
There were pyramid's everywhere, no matter where you looked. Picture three is where four half metre pyramid's are joined together to make the metre tall pyramid.
It was a lot of repetition.
It started to come together,
The first of the four 2 metre pyramid's to be built, then three down and one more to go.
Steve having fun,
Nearing the end of the day and the finished build,
The official measuring of the pyramid and all the event had to be filmed for Guinness,
the third picture looks like the units are a little hicklty picklty (this might be an English saying that those from abroad have no idea what I'm on about?)
but it was a pretty firm structure and was easily supporting itself.
Coming to the end of the day, I found it very tiring and not sure how people or especially I would cope when working to enter the world balloon convention or at balloon manor.
Full respect to them all.
At the end of the day, it was nice getting to know people a little better. It was hard work but I did enjoy the experience.
The last picture from the day,
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