A little Airship history for you all.
Étienne Montgolfier was the first human to lift off the
earth, making at least one tethered flight from the yard of the Réveillon
workshop in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine in October 1783. A little while later on
that same day, Pilâtre de Rozier became the second to ascend into the air, to
an altitude of 80 feet (24 m), which was the length of the tether. On 21
November 1783, the first free flight by humans was made by Pilâtre, and the
Marquis d'Arlandes. The flight began from the grounds of the Château de la Muette
(close to the Bois de Boulogne park) in the western outskirts of Paris. They
flew aloft about 3,000 feet (910 m) above Paris for a distance of nine
kilometres. After 25 minutes, the machine landed between the windmills, outside
the city ramparts, on the Butte-aux-Cailles.
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