{"id":3945,"date":"2018-11-21T10:34:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T09:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2018-11-21T10:35:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T09:35:53","slug":"hot-air-balloon-first-flight-it-was-236-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/blog\/2018\/11\/hot-air-balloon-first-flight-it-was-236-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot air balloon first flight: it was 236 years ago…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between June 4, 1783 and November 21, 1783, brothers Etienne and Joseph de Montgolfier achieved a “crazy” performance. Design a craft that can fly in the air and allow a crew (Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Pil\u00e2tre de Rozier and the Marquis Fran\u00e7ois d’Arlandes) to join the sky for a free flight. Of course, there have been hundreds of people who have looked into the cradle of the “dream of man”: flying like a bird. Seamstresses, engineers, technicians, artists, chemists, physicists. The entire Court of King Louis XVI and the Academy of Sciences, but also characters like Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, US Ambassador to France. <\/span><\/p>\n

There was the search for a basket format, the fuel, the heated debate between the proponents of hydrogen and those of the hot air (and at the beginning it was believed that it was the smoke that had this ascensional power). A real collective work of development of a prototype. <\/span><\/p>\n

Today, could we do the same thing with all the means available for new technologies? It’s not sure. What is certain is the determination of Pil\u00e2tre de Rozier who wanted to be this first man who exceeds the towers of the cathedrals. A passion that will lead him two years later to lose his life by developing this magical device that is the hot-air balloon (combination of hot air and hydrogen and today more often helium). <\/span><\/p>\n

Pil\u00e2tre de Rozier remains the pioneer of the aeronautical conquest that allows us today to consider going to Mars. This is what we celebrate today, more than the first ascent in captivity in October 1783. And the Grand Est Mondial Air Ballons\u00ae #GEMAB is the continuity of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Find all the information about #GEMAB19 by clicking here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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First manned free balloon flight, Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d’Arlandes, 21 November 1783, in Montgolfier (hot air) balloon from the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France, travelling 9km in 25 minutes. Aeronautics Aviation Ballooning<\/p><\/div>\n

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Between June 4, 1783 and November 21, 1783, brothers Etienne and Joseph de Montgolfier achieved a “crazy” performance. Design a craft that can fly in the air and allow a crew (Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Pil\u00e2tre de Rozier and the Marquis Fran\u00e7ois d’Arlandes) to join the sky for a free flight. Of course, there have been hundreds of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3947,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/3947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}