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The first manned balloon flight — The first untethered manned flight, 21 November 1783, from the Château de la Muette to the Butte-aux-Cailles
Two papermakers of Annonay had shown in June that a hot-air balloon could leave the ground, then in September that a sheep, a duck and a cockerel survived it. Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d’Arlandes rose at last from the gardens of La Muette before members of the Académie des sciences, crossed Paris and landed at the Butte-aux-Cailles. (Editorial synthesis)
The first manned balloon flight took place on 21 November 1783. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The first manned balloon flight took place in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The first manned balloon flight ended in a free flight of twenty-five minutes over Paris, the balloon released from the ground. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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