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Beginning to experiment
Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier began to experiment in 1782 by using a piece of fabric aloft by a fire of wool and damp straw. -
First hot air balloon flight
Before subjecting humans to the balloon they ran a trial run, sending a sheep, a duck, and a rooster up in the air. The flight lasted for 15 minutes. -
First maned hot air balloon ride
Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d’Arlandes fly from Paris in a ‘hot air balloon created out of paper-lined cloth by wealthy brothers and papermakers Jacques and Joseph Montgolifer -
First gas flight
Just 10 day after the first hot air balloon ride, physicists Jacques Alexander Charles and Nicholas Louis Robert launched the first gas balloon. This flight was in Paris, France, lasted 2.5 hours and covered 25 miles. -
First female to ride in a hot air balloon
Elizabeth Tible was 19 years old, the first female to go on an untethered balloon flight. Her flight lasted 45 minutes, traveled about 3 miles, and reached a height of around 8,500. The reason she travel was because a old man backed out and Elizabeth took his spot. -
First hot air balloon to take off in North America
Jean-Pierre Blanchard completes the first balloon flight in North America, flying from Philadelphia to New Jersey. -
Hot air balloons first used at war
Hot air balloons were very helpful at war. They are used for military observations during the Franco-Prussian war. -
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Balloons in World War 1
Both sides used balloons for military observations during the war from 1914 to 1918. -
Modern Hot air ballooning era takes off
Edward Yost invents a propane burner that changes ballooning from gas power to hot air. A hot air balloon using the burning successfully flies in Nebraska, USA -
The first balloon World Championships
The first balloon World Championships were held in the United States. -
Altitude record
Felix Baumgartner sets an altitude record of 39.045km in a gas balloon, 39.045km is equal to 24.3 miles.
