Balloon

**balloon**
	unpowered aerostat
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Subclass of	aerostat; unpowered aircraft;
Operator	United States Navy (United States Navy balloon fleet); Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (weather balloon);
Different from	Ballon; balloon;
Said to be the same as	gas balloon
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English: Balloons are flexible membranes filled with hot air or gas (helium, hydrogen).

Types

Historic balloons

Francesco Lana de Terzi
Flying ship project
c. 1670
Bartolomeu de Gusmão
Passarola
1709
Montgolfier brothers
Montgolfière
1783
Jacques Charles
Globe hydrogene balloon
1783
Gerli brothers
Andreani hot air balloon
1784
Jean-Pierre Blanchard
gas balloon with oars
1784
Étienne-Gaspard Robert
Minerva (project)
published in 1803/04
Paris 1878
Vincenzo Lunardi
gas balloon with oars
1784
Lowe's gas balloon
City of New York
built in 1859
Jules Duruof gas balloon Le Tricolore
1874
Henri Giffard
Grand Ballon Captif
1878
1870
1870
1870
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russkiy
1887 (august, 7)
brazil
Sociedad Sportiva Argentina
El Pampero
c. 1907
Spherical gas balloon
French
1916
1916
1917
US navy
Inventor Blainville
Le globe volant (project)
?
Balloons, 1919.
ww1
Swiss balloons
1905
1905
1922
1932
1929 France
Traversée des Pyrénées
1937
1935 warszawa
1935 warszawa
1932
Italian
1906
1913
1912

Events

Jacques Charles:
unmanned hydrogen balloon ascent
Champ-de-Mars
1783 (august, 27)
Jacques Charles:
unmanned hydrogen balloon descent
Gonesse
1783 (august, 27)
Jacques Charles:
unmanned hydrogen balloon
Champ-de-Mars
1783 (august, 27)
Montgolfier brothers:
Montgolfière test flight
with three animals
Versailles - Vaucresson
1783 (september, 19)
Pilâtre de Rozier:
manned hot-air balloon ascent (moored)
1783 (october, 19)
Pilâtre de Rozier and d'Arlandes:
1st manned hot-air balloon flight
1783 (november, 21)
Charles and Robert:
1st manned hydrogen balloon flight
1783 (december, 1)
Charles and Robert's
balloon descent, plain of Nesle near Beaumont
1783 (december, 1)
Coustard de Massi
Globe Aérostatique
Nantes
1784 (june, 14)
Robert brothers:
Aerostat experience
Jardin des Tuileries
1784 (september, 19)
Blanchard and Jefferies
1st channel crossing
Dover - Guînes
1785 (january 7)
Green, Hollond, Mason:
Royal Vauxhall balloon
distance record: 608 km
Vauxhall - Weilheim
1836 (november, 8)
Coxwell and Glaisher
The Mammoth balloon
altitude record: >8800 m
Wolverhampton - Ludlow
1862 (september 5)
Spencer and Berson
Excelsior balloon
altitude: 8320 m
London, Crystal Palace
1898 (september 15)
Berson and Süring
Preussen balloon
altitude record:>10000 m
Berlin, Tempelhof
1901 (july 31)
Artillery spotting balloon
Russian Stratostat
Polsh gondola
James Wallace Black took this photograph of Boston from a tethered balloon in 1860
Thaddeus Lowe observing the Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks from his balloon "Intrepid" on the north side of the Chicahominy, 1862
A blimp view of RNAS Pulham UK 1919