All over the world, 21st November is the day balloonists celebrate the anniversary of the first free flight with human
It was on this day 16 November 1959 that American balloonist Joe Kittinger made the first high altitude jump. As
As the crew of Double Eagle V crossed the Californian coast at 9pm on 12 November 1981 they had
On April 13, 1963, pilots Ed Yost and Don Piccard launched the 60,000 cubic foot hot air balloon "Channel Champ"
In 1957, on 18th September Don Piccard flew the first plastic Pleiades, a cluster of small balloons, based upon a
Just after breakfast on August 8th, 1709, a 24 year old Priest, Bartolomeu de Gusmão from Brazil, demonstrated the first
On 8th January 2000, the first ever hot air balloon flight at the South Pole took place. Ivan André Trifonov,
On the 19th September 1783, Etienne Montgolfier, a paper maker, launched the first hot air balloon with passengers, it was
The first military use of observation balloons was during the French Revolutionary Wars. They were also used by both sides
Le Flesselle, the biggest balloon. On the 19th of January 1784, in Lyon, France, the largest Montgolfier balloon ever made
Jean-Pierre Blanchard (July 4, 1753 – March 7, 1809), aka Jean Pierre François Blanchard, was a French inventor, most remembered
Did you know the first gas balloon made its flight in August 1783? It was designed by Jacques Charles and