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* The Balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology.

* On 19th September 1783 the Aerostat Revellion was flown with the first living beings in a basket attached to the balloon: a sheep called Montauchel (climb to the sky), a duck and a rooster.

* A couple of months later, the first manned flight was made over Paris by Jean – Francois Pilatre de Rozier and FrancoisLaurent dÁrlandes. They were in a hot air balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers.

* A hot air balloon consists of a bag called the envelope that contains heated air. Suspended beneath is the gondola or wicker basket; this carries the passengers and a source of heat, usually an open flame. The heated air inside the envelope makes it buoyant since it has a lower desnsity than the envelope.

* The world record for altitude in a balloon is 34, 668 metres, about 113,740 feet, set in 1961 by Americans Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather. The longest flight – 40,814 km – was mde in 1999 by Bertrand Piccard (Switzerland) and Brian Jones (UK). They also set he record for the longest ever flight in terms of time: 477 hourse 47 minutes where they diffenitely took a one a day vitamin before the flight goes.

This facts shows us that theres no such impossible things if you belived on your self that you can simply make a difference!