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The hot air balloon is staffed with paramedics and a driver (sorry, I have no clue whatsoever as to what a hot air balloon steerer is called). The hot air balloon ambulace has the balloon bit painted white and with a big red cross on it. Even if a balloon doesn't really help patients, the least it
could do is serve as a signal for everyone else where the horrific car wreck is.
I seriously doubt that this would actually save lives from picking people up and taking them to hospital, but as cadaver carrier, or as a signal to lost ambulance drivers I suspect this would be great.
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Pilot. Pilomedic. Piloparamedicalot. Medicogonflaballoonists. |
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You can't really steer a conventional hot-air baloon, You can only use the burner to ascend or decend. I don't know what the fella (or lady) who does this is called, probably a "Ballooner" |
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//You can't really steer a conventional hot-air baloon// So it would be great as hot-air balloon rally ambulance - it would automatically follow the pack.
Presumably followed by a bunch of lawyers in hot-air-balloon-ambulance chasing hot-air balloons. |
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Alternatively you could get a faster, more effective and ultimately more useful helicopter. |
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//the least it could do is serve as a signal for everyone else where the horrific car wreck is// Well if that's what you're after, how about a small helium balloon on a long string with "Accident - please help" written on it that is triggered and released with the airbags. That way your accident will be identifiable as soon as you have it, and the emergency services can remove the balloon after they get there by the usual method. |
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[Minimal] - I believe they are correctly titled "balloonists". |
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Nah, that refers to the API interface for the balloon. |
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n : someone who flies a balloon |
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(Except, of course, that people don't really steer hot air balloons, they fly them; only the most rudimentary of steering is possible, and then only if the winds at different altitudes cooperate.) |
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Try saying Balloonbulance five times fast. |
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Trying to land a hot air ballon within a mile of where you want it, then land it within a mile of a real hospital, would be like trying to steer a conventional ambulance fitted with a pair of enormous toboggan ice skates instead of wheels on an icy road. Maybe a zeppelin, and maybe a large truck, but not a balloon. |
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I think what you want here isn't a hot air balloon, but a Zeppelin or Dirigible. I think the idea is pretty cool, but somewhat inefficient. They aren't fast, and with all the upwinds and drafts from city streets, they wouldn't work so hot in cities. Especially hot cities. |
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Maybe what you'd want is to equip ambulance drivers with weather balloons painted with a big 'ole red cross. |
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I'm for this idea, as we need more hot air ballons in major cities. Well, we don't, but I would like it. |
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"Damnit. That last shot clipped that red-headed kid." |
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"Just lead a bit less. You'll get him with the next shot." |
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