Balloon

English: Balloons are flexible membranes filled with hot air or gas (helium, hydrogen).

Types[edit]

Jacques Charles:
unmanned hydrogen balloon ascent
Champ-de-Mars
1783 (august, 27)
Jacques Charles:
unmanned hydrogen balloon descent
Gonesse
1783 (august, 27)
Montgolfier brothers:
Montgolfière test flight
with three animals
Versailles - Vaucresson
1783 (september, 19)
Pilâtre de Rozier:
1st manned hot-air balloon ascent (moored)
1783 (october, 15)
Pilâtre de Rozier:
manned hot-air balloon ascent (moored)
1783 (october, 19)
Pilâtre de Rozier and d'Arlandes:
1st manned hot-air balloon flight
1783 (november, 21)
Charles and Robert:
1st manned hydrogen balloon flight
1783 (december, 1)
Charles and Robert's
balloon descent, plain of Nesle near Beaumont
1783 (december, 1)
Coustard de Massi
Globe Aérostatique
Nantes
1784 (june, 14)
Robert brothers:
Aerostat experience
Jardin des Tuileries
1784 (september, 19)
Blanchard and Jefferies
1st channel crossing
Dover - Guînes
1785 (january 7)
Green, Hollond, Mason:
Royal Vauxhall balloon
distance record: 608 km
Vauxhall - Weilheim
1836 (november, 8)
Coxwell and Glaisher
The Mammoth balloon
altitude record: >8800 m
Wolverhampton - Ludlow
1862 (september 5)
Spencer and Berson
Excelsior balloon
altitude: 8320 m
London, Crystal Palace
1898 (september 15)
Berson and Süring
Preussen balloon
altitude record:>10000 m
Berlin, Tempelhof
1901 (july 31)