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1995 Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
1989 2 hot-air balloon crash at Alice Springs Australia, 13 killed 1987 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic 1984 Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic 1981 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed, Double Eagle V 1981 Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, 1st U.S. woman free balloon pilot, dies 1980 Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m) 1980 1st trans-U.S. balloon crossing 1980 1st nonstop crossing of U.S. via balloon (Maxie Anderson and son Chris) 1978 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans) 1972 1st hot air balloon flight over Alps 1969 James Lanphier, actor (Flight of Lost Balloon), dies at 48 1966 Nicholas Piantanida, sets balloon flight record and dies in descent 1961 Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon 1960 Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700') 1957 U.S. Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon 1957 David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon 1948 U.S. balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record) 1939 Barbara Luna, born in New York City, actress, 5 Weeks in a Balloon, Gentle Savage 1935 Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over SD 1934 Jean Piccard and Jeanette Ridlen attain balloon height of 17.341 m (rec) 1932 Auguste Piccard/Max Cosijns reach 16,201m in a balloon 1931 Piccard and Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon 1930 Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen 1927 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill) 1920 James Lanphier, New York, actor, Flight of Lost Balloon 1910 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon 1909 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham and Eleanor Waring) 1897 Solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole 1885 Fred Burnaby, English colonel/balloon pioneer, dies in battle 1874 Mary Walsh and Charles Colson are 1st couple to be married in a balloon 1870 Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse 1870 Leon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon 1860 1st aerial photo taken in U.S. (from a balloon), Boston 1859 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette Ind 1859 J Arthur S Berson, Austria meteorologist, Balloon flights, Amazon 1859 Balloon covers a record 809 miles over St. Louis 1858 Nadar takes 1st airborne photo, in a balloon 1830 Charles Durant, 1st U.S. aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, New York City to Perth Amboy, NJ 1797 Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute jump from balloon (Paris) 1793 1st hot-air balloon flight in the U.S. lifts off in Philadelphia 1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America 1785 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands 1785 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard and Jeffries) 1784 1st U.S. balloon flight, 13 year old Edward Warren 1784 Mme Thible becomes 1st woman to fly, in a balloon 1784 1st balloon flight in Ireland 1783 Charles and M N Roberts ascend 2,000' in hydrogen balloon 1783 J van North launches unmanned balloon 1783 Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight 1783 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude 1783 Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight 1783 Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon, unmanned 1753 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US 1709 1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors) |
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