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It was made in silk and lined with paper that was 33 feet in diameter and launched It to the market place -with nobody aboard- on June 4th, 1783.
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The hot air balloon was the first successful human- carrying flight technology. It was made in September 19, 1783 in France.
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The first hot air balloon created was in France by the brothers joseph Michel and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier in 1783
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The first passengers to get on the hot air balloons were actually animals (a sheep, duck, and a rooster) in 1783.
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They started to get popular around November 21st 1784 about a year after they came out.
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Hot air balloons used to be the beginning of battle aviation. The first military use of hot air balloons was a battle of Fleurus in Europe (1794), with the French using the balloon as an observation post to look out for enemies.
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on 1830 gas air balloons were flown. Unlike, hot air balloons gas didn’t depend on fire to get them aloft and stay up and therefore they were able to stay up longer and it was much easier to control.
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Former king, Louis XVI, wanted hot air balloon flights to go ahead but didn’t want to be responsible for potential fatalities, so decided to make criminals condemned to death pilot hot air balloons. (December 1792)
