Friday, October 21, 2011

Vintage Hot Air Balloon

This is so awesome!

The first manned hot air balloon voyage took place in Paris on November 21, 1783 with two French brothers who stayed up in the air for 20 minutes and hot air balloon travel was born.  Then two years later Jean Pierre Blanchard and an American became the first to cross the English Channel in a hot air balloon.  In 1793 Blanchard became the first person to fly a hot air balloon in North America and President George Washington was present at its launch.



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Enjoy!