This is the first volume - design criteria - of a four-volume series on building your own hot-air balloon. The author is an expert balloon pilot and experienced balloon builder, and nothing is left out.

This is volume II, Materials, Equipment and Suppliers of the four-volume set Building Your Own Hot-Air Balloon, containing a bill of materials, detailed information on materials and equipment to be obtained, and their sources.

This is Volume III - Plans & Construction - of a four-volume (three volumes plus an Appendix) series: Build Your Own Hot-Air Balloon, written by an experienced builder and pilot after many years of work in the field, and originally published in the 1970s and early 1980s.