hot air balloon

     

The hot air balloon is the olest successful human-carrying flight technology. On November 21, 1783, in Paris, France, the first manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in a hot air balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers.

Trivia about hot air balloon

  • In 1783 two Frenchmen became the first to get a rise out of this Montgolfier invention
  • Cosmic rays were first detected by V. F. Hess during a flight by one of these
  • In 1783 Benjamin Franklin saw the first piloted flight of this type of transport while in Paris
  • It took 6 tries, but in 2002 Steve Fossett became the first man to fly solo around the world in one of these
  • In September 1984 Joe W. Kittinger became the first to solo across the Atlantic in one of these
  • In January 1997 Steve Fossett stayed aloft in one for over 6 days, but failed to fly it around the world
  • A historic flight in one of these went over Paris Nov. 21, 1783; today many fly in them for fun
  • In 1783 Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier, sons of a French paper bag maker, invented this
  • Airgonation is travel via this transport that Phileas Fogg once used
  • In 1797 Andre Garnerin became the first to use a parachute without a rigid frame when he jumped from one of these

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