Before subjecting humans to the unknown dangers of flight in a hot-air balloon, French inventors conducted a trial run, sending a sheep, a duck and a rooster up in the air over Versailles. Anyone ...

Workers lower a rack on to a replica of the Breitling Orbiter 3, the first manned balloon to circumnavigate the globe, at the Anderson-Abruzzo International Balloon Museum in Albuquerque, N.M ...

A hot air balloon drifts low on the east side of Anchorage behind Providence Hospital Sunday morning on October 6, 1991. ... indeed the first manned flight as well.

The first untethered, manned hot-air balloon was launched on November 21, 1783, when a nobleman, François Laurent d’Arlandes, and a scientist, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, set fire to a ...

A report by Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) one of The Netherland’s public broadcasting organisations explained the ...

The first successful around-the-world balloon flight was made in 1999 by Bertrand Piccard (Swiss) and Brian Jones (Britain) on a combination hot-air and helium balloon, the Breitling Orbiter III.

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - A hot air balloon made contact with a power line after Wednesday’s first competition flight of the U.S. National Hot Air Balloon Championship in Longview. The incident ...

Hot air balloons had been around since the first manned flight in 1783. In less than a decade, they were being used in combat at the 1794 Battle of Fleurus.

The golden balloon that hovered in the sky above Paris during the Olympics is back, sailing above the city at dusk and ...