We'd like to offer this page as a central point for collecting links to information of interest to people involved with high altitude balloon activities. If you have interesting URLs which would benefit others email them to me and I'll add them to our information pages.
For Information about other Balloon Groups see that entry on the EOSS Home Page.
A "Party" balloon company, Beautiful Balloonsfor All Occasions,has put together a very nice faq on latex balloons.
Here is Part 101 annotated by Mike Manes as it relates to EOSS activities.
Apparently the government likes to completely change their web based interaction from time to time so, as of today (9/24/06)
When everything changes again then I'm sure this one URL:
Will continue to work. Enter "Federal Aviation Regulations" in the search box and you will turn up the new location for this document.
An HTML version - Forwarded by Dave Mullenix from an email by Dave Odekirk
Federal Meteorological Handbook #3 - Rawinsonde and Pibal Observations
by Dave Mullenix
by Paul L. Verhage KD4STH
Paul's Book "Near Space" is available online at the parallax website. A fantastic resource.