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First free voyage in a balloon
Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes make the first free aerial voyage in a Montgolfier hot-air balloon. -
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Flight
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Crossing the English Channel in a hot-air balloon.
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries cross the English Channel by balloon. -
First parachute from balloon.
André Jacques Garnerin makes the first human parachute descent, from a balloon. -
Gliding?
Otto Lilienthal begins successful gliding experiments. -
Orville and Wilbur Make first powered and controlled flight machine.
Orville and Wilbur Wright make first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine.