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22 November 2025

21 November 1783 – the first untethered manned flight in a Montgolfier balloon

20 November 2025 Jacek Domański

On 21 November 1783, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d’Arlandes made the world´s first untethered flight in a Montgolfier hot air balloon. The aerostat reached an altitude of 3,000 feet and remained airborne […]

27 August 1783 – the world´s first hydrogen balloon

26 August 2021 Jacek Domański

On 27th August 1783, French scientist, professor Jacques Charles and engineers Anne-Jean Robert and Nicolas-Louis Robert, have launched the first ever hydrogen-filled balloon. Although the idea of ballooning was as old as ancient China (approximately […]

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