What apparatus and fuel produces the heat?
Modern day hot air balloons have burners that use propane for fuel. Propane is preferred over other fuels due to output verses cost. Other fuels can be substituted, but that is not common in this country. The propane is stored in tanks onboard – usually six tanks – each tank with a ten to twenty gallon capacity. Burners used today employ the latest in technology, producing the greatest heat output with the least amount of noise, a big help in facilitating a good neighbor policy, which, of course, is very important to ballooning.
