21st November is Montgolfier Day
All over the world, 21st November is the day balloonists celebrate the anniversary of the first free flight with human...
First Hot Air Balloon across the English Channel
On April 13, 1963, pilots Ed Yost and Don Piccard launched the 60,000 cubic foot hot air balloon “Channel Champ”...
Don Piccard b.1926 – d.2020.
In 1957, on 18th September Don Piccard flew the first plastic Pleiades, a cluster of small balloons, based upon a...
1709 – First demonstration of a model hot air balloon
Just after breakfast on August 8th, 1709, a 24 year old Priest, Bartolomeu de Gusmão from Brazil, demonstrated the first...
The day a duck, a sheep and a cockerel took to the air in 1783
On the 19th September 1783, Etienne Montgolfier, a paper maker, launched the first hot air balloon with passengers, it was...
Military Ballooning
The first military use of observation balloons was during the French Revolutionary Wars. They were also used by both sides...
Le Flesselle, 19th January 1784
Le Flesselle, the biggest balloon. On the 19th of January 1784, in Lyon, France, the largest Montgolfier balloon ever made...
Jean Pierre Blanchard
Jean-Pierre Blanchard (July 4, 1753 – March 7, 1809), aka Jean Pierre François Blanchard, was a French inventor, most remembered...
The First Gas Balloon Flight
Did you know the first gas balloon made its flight in August 1783? It was designed by Jacques Charles and...
The First Hot-Air Balloon 1783
On June 4th, 1783, Etienne and Joseph Montgolfier demonstrated the first balloon heated by hot air to the nobles of...
4th February 1967 was the 1st flight in a gas balloon across the Channel with 5 passengers
1967 4th February, on a beautiful calm and sunny day, Malcolm Brighton piloted the 1st balloon to cross the English...
222 years ago, Jean Pierre Blanchard made the 1st balloon flight in America
222 years ago was the 1st balloon flight in the USA. 9th January 1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard decided to set...