Balloon
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English: Balloons are flexible membranes filled with hot air or gas (helium, hydrogen).
Français : Les ballons sont des aérostats constitués d'enveloppes flexibles remplies d'air chaud ou de gaz (hélium, hydrogène).
Types
Historic balloons
- 1870
- 1870
- 1870
- Jules Duruof gas balloon Le Tricolore
1874 - Paris 1878
- brazil
- Sociedad Sportiva Argentina
El Pampero
c. 1907 - Spherical gas balloon
- French
- 1916
- 1916
- 1917
- US navy
- Inventor Blainville
Le globe volant (project)
? - Balloons, 1919.
- ww1
- Swiss balloons
- 1905
- 1905
- 1922
- 1932
- 1929 France
- Traversée des Pyrénées
- 1937
- 1935 warszawa
- 1935 warszawa
- 1932
- Italian
- 1906
- 1913
- 1912
Events
- Montgolfier brothers:
Montgolfière test flight
with three animals
Versailles - Vaucresson
1783 (september, 19) - 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'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) - Artillery spotting balloon
- Russian Stratostat
- Polsh gondola
- James Wallace Black took this photograph of Boston from a tethered balloon in 1860
- Thaddeus Lowe observing the Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks from his balloon "Intrepid" on the north side of the Chicahominy, 1862
- A blimp view of RNAS Pulham UK 1919
