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First balloon flight over the English Channel
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First balloon flight over the English Channel
First balloon flight over the English Channel, from Dover to the French coast, by Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Seen here is the balloon in flight between Calais and Boulogne, with a fisherman, a farm labourer and a shepherd looking up in astonishment.
7 January 1785
Media ID 7475215
© The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library)/Mary Evans
1780s 1785 Aerostatic Astonishment Ballooning Blanchard Boulogne Calais Channel Country Side Dover Fisherman Labourer Pierre Shepherd
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