Macy's offers a website with lots of information and activities about the parade, including a tour of the studio where floats are designed and housed.
They're cute and take real engineering to get up into the air. I'm talking about the iconic balloons in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
How are Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons designed, calculated, fabricated, tested, and retested before they show up on the streets of Manhattan?