Balloon Collection (#16)

Autumn Birthdays
Autumn Birthday Babies [3 of 4]

Russian Barrage Balloons
Raising barrage balloons, to protect Moscow from visiting Germans

Front cover from The Sketch Coronation Festivities
Front cover illustration for The Sketchs Coronation Festivities number. It shows a woman in a typical 1950s party dress surrounded by balloons and streamers

Blanchard Flies Channel2
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Dr John Jefferies are the first people to cross the English Channel by air : their flight from Dover ends in the forest of Guines, near Andres

POMMERN IN THE BALTIC
The German balloon Pommern comes down in the Baltic : the three passengers are all drowned

Gambetta in Balloon
Gambetta, minister of the Interior, makes his escape from the besieged city in the balloon Armand Barbes

Gay Lussac Balloonflight
French scientist GAY-LUSSAC makes one of his ascents at Paris - the first instance of a manned aerial device being used for scientific purposes

Military Balloon C1910
A military balloon being used for balloon drill

LUNARDIs BALLOON 1784
Lunardi leads the first attempt to ascend in a balloon in England. He is accompanied by Madame Sage and Chevalier Biggin

Charles Green / Aeronaut
CHARLES GREEN English aeronaut who pioneered the use of coal gas in place of hydrogen in hot air balloons

Charles & Robert Unmannd
Charles & Roberts unmanned Globe comes down at Gonesse after flying from Paris

Blanchard Crossing / Cig
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Dr John Jefferies over the Channel, which they are the first people to cross by air, from Dover to the forest of Guines, near Andres

Barrage Balloon for Xmas
Who says that the war spoiled the British Christmas? Here, an innovative table decoration features a barrage balloon with presents attached as sand-bags

Andrees Departure
Andree, with Strindberg and Fraenkel, leave Spitzbergen on their adventurous flight, hoping to reach the North Pole : they are depicted half an hour after lift-off

Andree Leaves Sweden
Andree and his expedition sail from Goteborg, Sweden, in the Virgo to Spitzbergen, whence they will - hopefully - fly to the North Pole in their balloon

Girls Playing Ball
Two young girls playing catch

Pre Andree Departure
Andree, with Strindberg and Fraenkel, make last-minute preparations at Spitzbergen for their flight : in a few moments they will be on their way to the North Pole

Caquot Military Balloon
Caquot-type kite balloon for military use

German Balloon Watched
A colourful balloon is watched by a rather drab crowd in a grey field probably on the outskirts of Stuttgart, a notoriously colourless city

French Capture Hong-Hoa
The French use captive balloons for reconnaisance purposes at the capture of Hong-Hoa in Indo-China (Vietnam)

Mongolfier Manned Flight
First manned flight by Pilatre de Rozier and D Arlandes in Mongolfiere, Paris

GIFFARDs BALLOON 1878
Giffards captive balloon at the Paris Exposition

Skyhook Balloons
Skyhook high-altitude weather balloons, such as these used by the U.S.Navy, were liable to be perceived as UFOs by witnesses unfamiliar with them

First Manned Flight
Pilatre de Rozier and le marquis d Arlandes make the first manned flight, in a hot- air Montgolfiere, over Paris

Montgolfier / Manned
Balloon of de Rozier and d Arlandes makes its first manned ascent

Charles & Robert
Celebrated flight from Tuileries Garden by J.A.C. Charles, and Louis- Nicolas Robert

Balloon Attacked / 1783
The unmanned balloon is attacked on landing at Gonesse after a successful flight from Paris

First Montgolfiere 1783
THE FIRST PRACTICAL BALLOON Montgolfiers first air balloon, unmanned, was launched at Annonay, rose to 2000 metres; the Academie Royale des Sciences paid for the venture

Transport / Flight / Balloon
Ballooning pioneers Charles and Robert land at Nesles, France

Piccard Ascends 1931
Auguste Piccard, Swiss scientist, with colleague Kupfer, reaches record altitude of 16, 201m, ascending from Augsburg and coming down in the Austrian Alps

Balloon Lightened
A scene in the basket of a balloon. One man consults the altimeter : another empties sand to lighten the balloon and gain height, a third releases a carrier-pigeon

Beggars in Balloons
While the wealthy flit about the skies in their private aeroplanes, beggars must make do with balloons, aged and patched

Steam Engine Satire
The steam carriage, constantly in danger of blowing up, is only one of the technological advances in transportation - there are also velocipedes, kite-drawn cars, balloons

Famale Dancing / Beaute
Woman dancing with balloons, leans back and poses

Invasion Plan / Balloons
INVASION PLANS The Thiloriere is a huge montgolfiere (hot-air-balloon) which will carry large numbers of French troops to England, at a very modest cost Date: 1804

ENTREPRENANT - 3
Balloon, used by the French for reconnaisance during the Revolutionary War, notably at the battle of Fleurus - the first use of a manned airborne device in warfare

ENTREPRENANT - 1
The French " Entreprenant" balloon is used for reconnaissance purposes at the battle of Fleurus - the first use of manned airborne devices in warfare

UFOS / IFOS
The United States government reveals that its weather balloons have been the cause of many UFO identifications

Montgolfier Unmanned
A montgolfiere (hot air) flies from Versailles to Vaucresson carrying a sheep, a cock and a hen - the first aerial passengers !

First Montgolfier / Cig Cd
PILATRE DE ROZIER and the MARQUIS D ARLANDES make the first successful manned flight in a Montgolfier balloon (hot air) at Paris

Tissandiers Balloon
Tissandiers Pole Nord over Northern France after sunset

Balloon & Meteor Shower
A meteor shower seen from a balloon over Northern France by Wilfred de Fonvielle

Balloon Satire of 1785
French satire on ballooning using horses to steer wayward balloon

Futuristic air transport, with a traffic policeman
A futuristic air transport scene. A traffic policeman, in his own mini-airship, directs international air traffic

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