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  2. Frank P. Lahm - Wikipedia

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    The United States Air Force Academy's first hot air balloon was named in his honor in 1973. Both Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport and the Administration Building of Mansfield Lahm Air National Guard Base are named for Lahm. In 2009, he was inducted in the First Flight Society along with Humphreys as the first military aviation trainees. [59] [n 24]

  3. History of ballooning - Wikipedia

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    The first manned balloon flight in Britain was by James Tytler on 27 August 1784. Tytler flew his balloon from Abbeyhill to Restalrig, then suburbs of Edinburgh. He flew for ten minutes at a height of 350 feet. [32] The first manned balloon flight in England was by Signor Vincent Lunardi who ascended from Moorfields (London) on 15 September ...

  4. Ward Van Orman - Wikipedia

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    Ward Tunte Van Orman (September 2, 1894 in Lorain, Ohio – March 11, 1978) was an American engineer, inventor and balloonist.A lifelong employee of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company credited with invention of Goodyear's inflatable life raft [2] and self-sealing fuel tank, [3] Van Orman set an unprecedented record of winning five annual National Balloon Races (including the first ever ...

  5. List of firsts in aviation - Wikipedia

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    First woman to pilot her own balloon: Sophie Blanchard flew solo from the garden of the Cloister of the Jacobins in Toulouse on August 18, 1805. [citation needed] First woman to be killed in an aviation accident: Sophie Blanchard was killed when her hydrogen balloon ignited on July 6, 1819. [22] Zeppelin LZ 1, first rigid airship to fly, 1900

  6. List of balloonists - Wikipedia

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    Sophie Blanchard (1778-1819), first professional female balloonist, first woman to pilot her own balloon, received honours from both Napoleon and Louis XVIII Mercedes Corominas (1886–1926), first female Spanish balloonist to make a solo ascent, later famed exhibitionist in Portugal and Brazil.

  7. Paper airplane sets world record while flying 82-miles - AOL

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    A team of auxiliary U.S. Air Force volunteers launched the paper aircraft from a weather balloon 96,563 feet (more than 18 miles) in the air. It Paper airplane sets world record while flying 82-miles

  8. Albert Leo Stevens - Wikipedia

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    He was born on March 9, in 1873 or 1877, in Cleveland, Ohio, of Czech parentage. [1] [2] [3] He had brother Frank Stevens (1875–1958).[4] [5]He started making balloon ascents in 1889 at age 12, and began manufacturing balloons and dirigibles at the age of 20 in 1893. [1]

  9. A 51-foot-long balloon of the beloved hit kids’ TV character popped during inflation Wednesday — but has made a quick recovery ready to fly during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.