The Worlds First Ten Manned Balloon Flights to Take Place

  After these first ten flights you are about to read about, the pace of ballooning accelerated rapidly: on 7 January 1785 Jean-Pierre Blanchard achieved the first Channel crossing with Dr John Jeffries (the first American to fly). They also carried the first airmail letter. As they lost height, they had to reduce weight, so they threw everything overboard, including their clothes. I love that story and here are ten stories from the worlds first ten balloonists…   The Worlds First Ten Manned Balloon Flights to Take Place   10 – Vincenzo Lunardi – 15th September 1784 On 15th September 1784, watched by a crowd of 200,000 Vincenzo Lunardi ascended from the Artillery ’ (Company Ground, Molleda, London, flying to

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