{"id":2329,"date":"2017-01-19T13:25:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T12:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2017-01-19T13:26:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T12:26:08","slug":"largest-montgolfier-hot-air-balloon-ever-made-le-flesselle-in-1784","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/2017\/01\/19\/largest-montgolfier-hot-air-balloon-ever-made-le-flesselle-in-1784\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest Montgolfier hot-air balloon ever made, Le Flesselle in 1784"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a246cb021816c9f476ac16cb834b7362\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2865779868887008\";\r\n\/* Android box *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1345074415\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Pil\u00e2tre de Rozier with Joseph Montgolfier, he was one of six passengers on a second flight on 19 January 1784, with a huge Montgolfier balloon <i>Le Flesselles<\/i> launched from Lyon. Four French nobles paid for the trip, including a prince.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2330\" style=\"width: 574px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2330\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2330\" src=\"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/largest-Montgolfier-hot-air-balloon-ever-made-Le-Flesselle.jpg\" alt=\"largest Montgolfier hot-air balloon ever made - Le Flesselle\" width=\"564\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/largest-Montgolfier-hot-air-balloon-ever-made-Le-Flesselle.jpg 564w, http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/largest-Montgolfier-hot-air-balloon-ever-made-Le-Flesselle-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On January 19, 1784, the largest Montgolfier hot-air balloon ever made, &#8220;Le Flesselle,&#8221; made an ascent at Lyons, France. This engraving depicts two scenes from the event.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Several difficulties had to be overcome. The wallpaper used to cover the balloon&#8217;s envelope became wet because of extreme weather conditions. The top of the balloon was made of sheep- or buckskin. The air was heated by wood in an iron stove: to start, the straw was set on fire with brandy. (In other tests charcoal or potatoes were used). The balloon had a volume of approximately 23,000\u00a0m\u00b3, over 10 times that of the first flight, but it only flew a short distance. The spectators kneeled down when the balloon came down too quickly. That evening the aeronauts were celebrated after listening to Gluck&#8217;s opera, Iphig\u00e9nie en Tauride.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0--><!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Pil\u00e2tre de Rozier with Joseph Montgolfier, he was one of six passengers on a second flight on 19 January 1784, with a huge Montgolfier balloon Le Flesselles launched from Lyon. Four French nobles paid for the trip, including a prince.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13,20,28],"tags":[222,221,121,218,219,220,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}