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How do you control a hot air balloon?

Updated: 9/11/2023
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With great difficulty. Up and down are fairly controllable, because you can heat the air more to go up, or let some of it out to go down. Lateral steering, however, is impossible. One has to go gradually upwards and hope to find a layer of air which is moving in the right direction.

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