{"id":1952,"date":"2021-09-03T10:48:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T08:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2021-09-03T10:48:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T08:48:25","slug":"la-france-deux-fois-sur-le-podium-de-la-gordon-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/2021\/09\/03\/la-france-deux-fois-sur-le-podium-de-la-gordon-bennett\/","title":{"rendered":"La France deux fois sur le podium de la Gordon Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 <strong>La France deux fois sur le podium de la Gordon Bennett<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>La Gordon Bennett est une course de distance dans les airs en ballon \u00e0 gaz. Depuis 1906, ann\u00e9e de sa cr\u00e9ation par James Gordon Bennett, milliardaire am\u00e9ricain, propri\u00e9taire du New York Herald, mis \u00e0 part les deux p\u00e9riodes de guerre et une longue interruption jusqu\u2019en 1983, bicentenaire du premier vol humain en 1783, la comp\u00e9tition se d\u00e9roule dans le pays du vainqueur de la course (d\u00e9cal\u00e9 d\u2019une ann\u00e9e suppl\u00e9mentaire depuis quelques ann\u00e9es). Dans chaque ballon \u00e0 gaz (gonfl\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019h\u00e9lium ou \u00e0 l\u2019hydrog\u00e8ne), d\u2019un volume de 1000 m3, on trouve deux pilotes confirm\u00e9s qui vont devoir passer jusqu\u2019\u00e0 90 heures, nuit et jour, dans les airs sans pouvoir se poser. Une exp\u00e9rience humaine, technologique, sportive extraordinaire que viennent de vivre une quinzaine de concurrents depuis la Pologne jusqu\u2019au centre de la France. Plus de 1500 km dans les airs avec \u00e0 l\u2019arriv\u00e9e un podium remport\u00e9 par la Suisse, devant deux \u00e9quipages fran\u00e7ais. Malheureusement cette comp\u00e9tition n\u2019a pas les retomb\u00e9es m\u00e9diatiques qu\u2019elle devrait avoir. A ce jour, on d\u00e9nombre seulement un peu plus de 300 pilotes de ballons \u00e0 gaz dans le monde (pour 12.000 pilotes de montgolfi\u00e8res) qui maintiennent une tradition n\u00e9e le 1er d\u00e9cembre 1783 avec le premier d\u00e9collage de Charles et Robert depuis Paris.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 <strong>France twice on the Gordon Bennett podium<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gordon Bennett is a distance race in the air aboard a gas balloon. Since 1906, the year of its creation by James Gordon Bennett, an American billionaire and owner of the New York Herald, apart from two periods of war and a long interruption until 1983, the bicentenary of the first human flight in 1783, the competition has taken place in the country of the winner of the race (shifted by an extra year in recent years). In each gas balloon (inflated with helium or hydrogen), with a volume of 1000 m3, there are two experienced pilots who will have to spend up to 90 hours, night and day, in the air without being able to land. This is an extraordinary human, technological and sporting experience that some fifteen competitors from Poland to the centre of France have just completed. More than 1,500 km in the air with a podium finish won by Switzerland, ahead of two French crews. Unfortunately this competition did not have the media coverage it should have. There are only a little more than 300 gas balloon pilots in the world (for 12,000 hot air balloon pilots) who maintain a tradition born on December 1st 1783 with the first take-off of Charles and Robert from Paris.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 La France deux fois sur le podium de la Gordon Bennett La Gordon Bennett est une course de distance dans les airs en ballon \u00e0 gaz. Depuis 1906, ann\u00e9e de sa cr\u00e9ation par James Gordon Bennett, milliardaire am\u00e9ricain, propri\u00e9taire du New York Herald, mis \u00e0 part les deux p\u00e9riodes de guerre et une longue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}