{"id":935,"date":"2012-11-21T07:46:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T06:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/?p=935"},"modified":"2019-11-21T08:09:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T07:09:13","slug":"the-first-manned-flight-was-229-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/2012\/11\/21\/the-first-manned-flight-was-229-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"The first manned flight was on 21th November 1783"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"137117dde994ef920366dbf34e4e7cff\" 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><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Mongolfier balloon first mannd flight\" src=\"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/tortenet\/picttort\/montgolfier1.gif\" alt=\"Mongolfier balloon first mannd flight\" width=\"390\" height=\"284\" \/>With the successful demonstration at Versailles, and again in collaboration with R\u00e9veillon, \u00c9tienne started construction of a 60,000-cubic-foot (1,700\u00a0m<sup>3<\/sup>) balloon for the purpose of making flights with humans. The balloon was about seventy-five feet tall and about fifty feet in diameter. It had rich decorative touches supplied by R\u00e9veillon. The color scheme was gold figures on a deep blue background. Fleur-de-lis, signs of the zodiac, and suns with Louis XVI&#8217;s face in the center interlaced with the royal monogram in the central section graced the majestic machine. Red and blue drapery and golden eagles were at the base of the balloon. It is fitting that \u00c9tienne Montgolfier was the first human to lift off the earth, making at least one tethered flight from the yard of the R\u00e9veillon workshop in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. It was most likely on October 15, 1783. A little while later on that same day,\u00a0Pil\u00e2tre de Rozier\u00a0became the second to ascend into the air, to an altitude of 80 feet (24\u00a0m), which was the length of the tether.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Pilatre de Rozier\" src=\"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/tortenet\/picttort\/pilatre.gif\" alt=\"Pilatre de Rozier\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" \/>On 21th November 1783, the first free flight by humans was made by Pil\u00e2tre, together with an army officer, the marquis d&#8217;Arlandes. The flight began from the grounds of the Ch\u00e2teau 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. Enough fuel remained on board at the end of the flight to have allowed the balloon to fly four to five times as far. However, burning embers from the fire were scorching the balloon fabric and had to be daubed out with sponges. As it appeared it could destroy the balloon, Pil\u00e2tre took off his coat to stop the fire.<\/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>With the successful demonstration at Versailles, and again in collaboration with R\u00e9veillon, \u00c9tienne started construction of a 60,000-cubic-foot (1,700\u00a0m3) balloon for the purpose of making flights with humans. The balloon was about seventy-five feet tall and about fifty feet in diameter. It had rich decorative touches supplied by R\u00e9veillon. 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