“You have to imagine that this tarpaulin on the ground is no more or less than the next Olympic basin which will be located in the Tuileries”, shows Éric Bachelier, project manager at Aerophile. In this hangar located in Le Creusot (71), in Burgundy, it is a Paris Olympic Games 2024 that we find. After his immense success during the games, A new Paris 2024 basin returns on June 21 To resume its place in the sky of the Tuileries Garden (I) until September.
For the second time, the world leader in the captive balloon, Aerophile, is responsible for making the ball. “The designer of the Olympic basin, Mathieu Lehanneur, wanted this new ball to be identical to the first, with the same painting with silver reflections,” explains Éric Bachelier.
So for eight days, a team of five painters is trying to carefully repaint the captive balloon envelope of 1,600 m3 with this famous paint. The original Olympic basin, it has been recycled to make way for this new aircraft 35 meters high, designed to be more resistant and thus be able to fly each summer to the Los Angeles Games in 2028.
