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Ha Trang. Today we are going to tell you about the history of the hot air
balloon. First, Hot air balloon has only been around for a little over 2
centuries, but it has a rich history filled with many important events. The
history of ballooning is the history of flight because humans first achieved
flight with balloons.
On 19th of Sep, 1783 – The first hot air balloon was launched by a French
scientist named Pilatre De Rozier and was called “Aerostat Reveillon.” The
balloon carried 3 passengers—a rooster, a duck, and a sheep— and was
only in the air for 15 minutes before crashing back to the ground.
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In 1785 – Jean Pierre Blanchard, a French balloonist, and John Jefferies,
his American co-pilot, became the first person to ever fly a gas balloon
across the English Channel.
This marked one of the longest distances a balloon had ever flown and was
a major step toward long-distance balloon travel.
In that same year, Pilatre De Rozier, died while also trying to cross the
English Channel.
His balloon exploded shortly after take-off on account of his experimental
design of using a hot air balloon and a hydrogen balloon tied together.
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January 7th, 1793 – Jean Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly a
hot air balloon in North America, with President George Washington
watching the launch.
For the next 150 years, hot air balloon was overtaken by gas
ballooning and the practice of flying via hot air balloon was all but
abandoned.
1987 – Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand became the first people in
history to cross the Atlantic in a hot air balloon, flying 2,900 miles in 33 hours
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1991 – Branson and Lindstrand re-teamed to cross the Pacific in a hot air
balloon.
Their flight launched from Japan and traveled to Canada, flying 6,700 miles
in 47 hours.
Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones took things further on the 1st March
1999 by flying around the world in the Breitling Orbiter 3, covering
46,759km in 19 days, 21 hours and 55 minutes!
Balloons using a combination of helium and hot air are now used for
many long distance flights such as the around the world flight of Steve
Fossett in his balloon, “Bud Light Spirit of Freedom” on June 19, 2002.
Today, hot air balloons have become popular and are present
everywhere in the world. We can access them more easily than before.
Current applications of hot air balloons are mostly used for high-end
tourism and travel services, search and rescue activities, or surveillance
activities, so airships can be used in missions, long-term research
activities on climate change.
Around the world, hot air balloon travel is one of the services that
customers love and are 99% satisfied.
Customers celebrate birthday parties, weddings, and corporate parties.
Nowadays, there are many hot air balloon festivals held around the world.