hot air balloons

     

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 balloons

  • These in the skies of Albuquerque on October 3, 1999 were a fine example of Charles' Law in action
  • Every October Albuquerque holds an international fiesta of these aircraft
  • A highlight of Freedom Weekend Aloft in Greenville, S.C. is a race of these craft
  • During the Cold War, 2 different families escaped over the Berlin Wall using these lighter-than-air vehicles

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