5 Incredible Inflatables You Won't Believe Exist | All5!

Welcome back to another top 5, in this list I'll be showing you 5 Incredible Inflatables You Won't Believe Exist.


5) Hangar

I'm sure most of you are aware of the Goodyear blimp.
An inflatable airship that's gigantic.
Hangars are where blimps are stored, therefore hangars are massive empty buildings.
In December 2017 the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company purchased an inflatable hangar.
This inflatable hangar is now the permanent home of Wingfoot Two, one of the companies airships.
The hangar is a whopping 9 stories tall and extends 103 meters or 337 feet in length.
It takes 20 fans just to inflate and maintain the hangars air cells.



4) Church

Say you're getting married and you found the perfect venue, but the local Church isn't to your liking, what do you do?
You could either find a different Church further away or hire an inflatable one.
This inflatable church comes with a steeple, organ and stained glass windows.
Within 2 hours it can be erected on any plot of land.
The church is also pretty spacious and can happily accommodate a party of 60 people, and from far away no one will really be able to tell that it isn't a real building.



3) Space Station Room

Inflatables aren't just for kids parties but can be useful for astronauts too.
NASA has been using inflatables as a way of cheaply expanding the Internation Space Station.
However, things don't always go to plan so easily.
On May 19th, 2016 American astronaut Jeffrey Williams tried to inflate the room but it wouldn't expand.
No one could figure out why as everything was working as it should.
The air pressure was correct but the room failed to inflate.
He gave up and decided to try again three days later, and somehow it started to work and the room inflated as panned.



2) Military Vehicles

You're probably thinking how can an inflatable be a good military vehicle.
Well believe it or not during world war 2 inflatable tanks and trucks were very useful.
Not as a means of battle but as a way of fooling the enemy.
An American unit in world war 2, made a bunch of fake military vehicles to fool the Germans.
And it worked pretty well, these fake military vehicles were attacked and bombed more than 20 times.
The Russians are still using this tactic today.
A company called RusBal produce inflatable military vehicles that look 100% authentic from the sky, all to just fool the enemy.



1) Rubber Duck

While some inflatables are useful and serve a good purpose, others are just for fun.
Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman created a massive inflatable rubber duck that's 16 meters or 54 feet tall.
The rubber duck has visited 10 countries so far, and seeing it on a river is really a remarkable sight.
However, the duck can vary in size.
You see each time the rubber duck goes to a city, it's actually built in that city by Hofman's plans.
It's not as simple as inflating it and letting it run loose on a river.
A team of workers are required to create and operate it.
But all the hard work really does pay off, cities or countries actually pay to have the duck visit.


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