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The first steps towards the construction of the Montgolfiere took place in 1782 "in a room". The Montgolfier Brothers made a silk globe measuring one cubic meter, they heated up the underneath of the globe with a flame. It lifted up 30 meters high. After several other attempts ,one of which was at a public event in Annonay, they were invited by the Science Academy in Paris, and that is where they met the Physicist Pilâtre de Rozier who later became the first man to "fly". |  | ||||||||
| In 1783, the moment arrived for the first manned attempt to fly. The King, Louis 16th was against this idea as he thought that his subjects would put their lives at risk.It was thus decided that the first flight would be "manned" by a rooster or cock, a duck and a sheep.The King helped with the flight and the animals came to no harm and were recovered after around 3 - 8 minutes of flight. The proof was evident, that living organisms were capable of flying without danger. King Louis 16th finally gave his authorisation for a manned flight ,and on the 21st of Novembre 1783, Deilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlande flew onboard an Aerostat or Airship measuring 2200 cubic meters conceived by Etienne. They took off from the Château of Muette in Paris and landed at Butte-aux-Cailles, 10 kilometers away. | |||||||||
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On the other side but still in the same time period, Jacques-Alexandre Charles built a hydrogen baloon and in August 1783, the "Globe", made by the Robert brothers, lifted off in the Champ de Mars and landed at Gonesse close to Bourget. On the first of December in 1783, J.A Charles and Robert did a flight tour of the rooftops in their hydrogen baloon, and later, without his friend J.A. Charles, went up to an altitude of 3000 meters, solo. |  | ||||||||
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All the following attempts, were purely aimed at enhancing the performance of the Montgolfieres. Pilâtre de Rozier made history, by being the first victim in the" history of aviation", as he died as a result of an accident from one of his attempts in 1784. In August 1785, Jean-Pierre Blanchard crossed the English Channel from Dover to Calais aboard a Montgolfière. In 1794, he French Army used Hot air baloons called "Charlieres" in the Battlefield at Fleurus, to observe enemy activity. The 21st Century saw the development of scientific flights. The goal was to get up to the highest possible height, to sample the air, make observationson temperature and barometric pressure. A Baloon was launched during the coronation of Napoleon the first, in1800. It landed in Rome. In 1836,the English aviator Green made a crossing from England to Nassau (800 km), the longest distance ever recorded at that time. |  | ||||||||
| At the end of 1796and the begining of 1797, André-Jacques Garnerin built his hydrogen aerostat or airship and performed a series of ascensions. During the second flight, he threw off his dog (who was equipped with a parachute) at 1/2 sphere and he landed on the ground with no injuries. On the 22nd October, 1797, Garnerin made the first parachute jump. | |||||||||
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In 1858, the cartoonist, photographer and Aviator Nadar took the first aerial photograph from a ballon.During the siege of Paris in 1870, Nadar offered his equipment for the use of enemy line observations. It became the only means to communicate with the province.Léon Gambetta, then, the Minister of the Interior used this means to leave the Capital.
In spite of everything, the Montgolfiere remained an entertainment, such as in 1878, when at a universal exhibition, a tethered immense hydrogen ballon was on display: It contained 25000 cubic meters of pure hydrogen, had a diameter of 36 meters and was 55 metres high. The basket measured 6 meters in diameter and had the capacity for each ascension to carry 50 people to an altitude of 600 meters. |
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| The free hot air baloon was too dependant upon the wind to be a reliable form of transportation. General Jean-Baptiste Meusnier conceived a elliptical baloon equipped with a helm but, no compatible engine existed at this time. The first flight took place in 1852 with thanks to Henri Giffard who invented a little stem engine to start up the propellers. Thereafter the slightly more efficient electric engine came onto the scene. |  | ||||||||
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It was really the combustion engine that allowed considerable progress to take place with regard to direction control, such as Atlantic crossings and flying over the North Pole. The Baron Ferdinand von Zeppelin launched himself into the adventure. The very same engine triggered off the decline in popularity of directionable baloons and this allowed advances and expansion in 20th Century Aviation. In 1937, the explosion of the Zeppelin Hindenburg rather tarnished their image. It seemed to be fine and very fashionable at the time to be "heavier than air": Aeroplanes | ||||||||
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But, the adventure wasn't over yet. On the 21st of May in 1931, Auguste Piccard became the first man to enter into the stratosphere (at an altitude of 16000 km ) in a pressurised capsule carried by a gas baloon. In 1945, the "Forsanose", a static Baloon, was used during the war for reconnaissance purposes, was recouperated, renovated and transformed into a Montgolfiere, equipped with an oil burner. New ideas could be born with the introduction of nylon and oil burners. Helium then replaced Hydrogen, the burners braziers and materials of the 20th Century
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In 1978, the British man Don Cameron attempted to cross the Atlantic and in In 1992, Bertrand Piccard .Wim Verstraeten crossed the same Atlantic and won theTransatlantic race. It was the very same constructor, namely, Don Cameron, using the same technical skills and credit to the rocket fuel burners, that Bertrand Piccard et Brian Jones succeeded in their around the world tour aboard the Breitling-Orbiter 3, a "rozière"...not in fact, a Montgolfiere. Their record stands at more than 40 000 kilometers in 20 days! |  | ||||||||
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