Dakar Explore: Baloon experiences - #Dakar2024

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The fifth edition of the Dakar in Saudi Arabia promises to push man and machine harder than any of the previous ones.
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Transcript
00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 We are preparing our balloons.
00:13 Our crew is lying the balloon on the ground.
00:17 We do a pre-flight check.
00:18 We check all the balloon.
00:20 Then we start the inflation.
00:22 We're using inflator fans.
00:23 We fill it with cold air.
00:25 Once the balloon is half full, then we start the fire.
00:28 We start burning.
00:30 We increase the temperature inside.
00:33 We make it light, and the balloon slowly will rise up,
00:36 and we are ready to fly.
00:37 OK, welcome aboard.
00:42 We are not aerodynamic.
00:46 We are aerostatic.
00:48 We're basically floating in the air.
00:50 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:54 Today, the weather is perfect.
01:04 The light is amazing because it is clear.
01:07 We had rain last night, so it cleared up everything.
01:12 So we have a nice visibility.
01:20 Our plan now is to keep in this valley, OK?
01:23 We cannot get out of the valley on the right
01:26 because it's all rocks.
01:28 Very soon, we will climb, get to the right,
01:31 and then once we reach the limit of the valley,
01:34 we get down again, and we will move to the left again
01:37 towards the middle of the valley.
01:38 When we fly a balloon, what we like more
01:48 is the silence.
01:50 All the rest is quiet, very quiet.
01:53 There is no noise, not even the noise of the wind,
01:56 because we are part of it.
01:58 We are part of the wind.
01:59 We're moving with the flow.
02:01 Same speed, same direction all the time.
02:05 Ground speed, six knots now.
02:08 I will try to land in between you guys.
02:17 Here you are on my track.
02:19 It is a very nice and clear and soft place
02:22 to put the balloon down.
02:24 Thank you.
02:25 OK, so the balloon is very tall.
02:27 It's 40 meters tall.
02:29 It's still going fast, but still be ready for a quite
02:34 rough landing.
02:37 Hold, hold, hold.
02:39 Keep holding.
02:41 Keep holding.
02:43 We feel the challenge every day, every minute.
02:46 And this is what brings us to fly every day.
02:50 We like the adventure, basically.
02:53 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:57 [MUSIC PLAYING]
03:01 (whooshing)
03:03 [BLANK_AUDIO]