HEAD BALLOONS, INC.
P.O. Box 28
Helen, GA 30545 U.S.A.
(706) 865-3874
emaiI: info@headbaIIoons.com

(800)-HEAD BALLOONS

- - ENVELOPE:

The balloon envelope is custom fabricated to your personal design with any combination of the 14 standard colors:  Red, Orange, Yellow, Gold, Kelly Green, Light Green, Royal Blue, Lt. Blue, Navy Blue, Purple, Silver/Gray,Turquoise, Pink and Black.  Its shape is very pleasing to the eye and the design lends itself well to artwork.  The standard fabric is an extremely tough 1.9 ounce rip-stop nylon with a durable silicone coating. This is the toughest standard fabric used in the industry today and assures a durable, long life envelope.

We also offer our HEAD Lite for the world travelers, the competitive pilots and for those who are just tired of a 200+ pound envelope.  The fabric in the HEAD Lite is a 1.1 ounce rip-stop nylon with a silicon coating.  The HEAD Lite  fabric when new has all of the tensile strength of our heavier standard fabric.  Naturally, the envelopes do not last as long as one made from our standard fabric, however a 77,000 cubic foot HEAD Lite envelope will fit in a duffel bag and only weighs approximately 115 pounds!

The envelopes may be made up of either 16 or 24 gores of horizontal panels, all of which are joined together with double lock stitched, french feld seams. The numerous horizontal and vertical seams provide added ripstop protection. The many seams allow endless, no-charge color patterns, as any panel may be any color at no extra charge. This modular construction also allows for easy panel replacement, which helps to reduce the cost of repairs. The basket weight is dispersed through the use of high strength nylon webbing, which runs vertically up the entire length of each gore seam.

To the load webbings are attached the envelope suspension lines. The standard suspension lines are 1/8", 7 x 19 stainless steel aircraft cable, which insure reliability and strength.  Non-conductive Kevlar suspension lines are available as an option.  We offer kevlar/dacron rope suspension lines or HEAD's exclusive NxKev(tm)  suspension lines.  Our Nxkev lines utilize 1" webbing made with Kevlar woven inside of fire resistant Nomex.

At the mouth of the envelope, rugged, flame resistant, 6 ounce Nomex is used for the #1 envelope panel.  At the bottom of the envelope you may have either a scoop or a skirt, also made of Nomex. The heat resistant ring created by the Nomex helps to virtually eliminate all of the small burns and crisp fabric caused by radiant heat. Standard Nomex colors: Red, Orange, Yellow, Royal Blue, Black and White.  

The standard top is the familiar Parachute top.  Our engineers have calculated the geometry of the pull angles to give you the easiest direct pull parachute top available.  If you still require something even easier to open, a pulley system may be installed.    Another option is the Quick Vent top.   The Quick Vent top gives you the venting capacity of a parachute top along with the ability for rapid deflation.
 
 
 

*** ENVELOPE  ONLY *** In addition to complete balloon systems, HEAD Balloons is the industry leader in the development of replacement envelopes.  We have seen the need and responded to the balloon community's demand for QUALITY, TOUGH and REASONABLY PRICED replacement envelopes.  HEAD Balloons was the first company to obtain FAA approval to mix and match various manufacturer's envelopes and baskets.  We can offer our envelopes Supplemental Type Certified over almost all other manufacturer's baskets and burner systems.  We currently have STC's to put our envelopes over Adams, Aerostar,  Cameron, Fire Fly (Balloon Works), Lindstrand, Raven, Sky  and Thunder & Colt baskets.  If your basket is still good, why buy a new basket?  You can put a new, hand crafted HEAD envelope over it.