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People are trying to make a flying machine.
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Benjamen Franklin urges men to find a way to steer the air ballon.
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Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes experimented with their own first ever air balloon.
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Vincent Lunardi took off from London watched by a crowd of 100,000 people.
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There are now two types of air balloons out: Hydogen gas balloons and hot air balloons.
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First parachute jump was made by A.J Garnerin, a French Balloonist & adventurer who dropped 3,000 feet from a gas balloon.
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Modern hot air ballooning was born in 1960, when Ed Yost launched a balloon with a new nylon envelope and propane burner system of his own invention.