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Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier
French aviator
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association with Montgolfiers
- In Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
…in a Montgolfier balloon with Pilatre de Rozier and François Laurent, marquis d’Arlandes, as passengers. The balloon sailed over Paris for 5.5 miles (9 kilometres) in about 25 minutes.
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balloon flight
- In balloon
…manned flight took place when Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, marquis d’Arlandes, sailed over Paris in a Montgolfier balloon. They burned wool and straw to keep the air in the balloon hot; their flight covered 5.5 miles (almost 9 km) in about 23 minutes. In December of that…
Read More - In balloon flight: Charles and de Rozier join the race
With the news from Annonay, French inventor Jacques-Alexandre-César Charles, who knew that hydrogen was lighter than the hot-air smoke used by the Montgolfiers, realized that all he had to do to succeed was to make his balloon experiment on a…
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