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Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Balloonists of Renown


Nazca hierophants, c 200 AD (per Julian Nott)



Cyrano de Bergerac, philosopher, c 1640


Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, academician, c 1783


le marquis Francois d'Artlandes, c 1783 


James Tytler, esq., c. 1784


Letitia Ann Sage, actress, c 1786


 
Dr John Jeffries, physician, c 1786

 

Jean-Pierre Blanchard, inventor, c 1793


James Sadler, pastry chef, 1811


Sophie Blanchard, balloonist, 1819



Thomas Monck Mason, musician, c 1836


John Wise, balloonist, c 1859 


Gen Edward P Alexander, CSA, c 1862


Henry C Coxwell, aeronaut, 1862


Dr Samuel Fergusson, scholar, adventurer, 1863


Phileas Fogg, gentleman, 1873


Gaston Tissandier, meteorologist, c 1875


Salmon August Andrée, mechanical engineer, 1897



Oscar Z Diggs, salesman, regent, c 1900


Professor Fate, academician, c 1908



Baron Bomburst, autocrat, c 1910

 


Max Pruss, zepplin capt., 1937


Larry Walters, security guard, 1982


Michael Sanby, entrepreneur, 1989 


Falcon Heene, balloon boy (disputed), 2009


Joseph "Joe" Biden, politician, balloonist, c 1973 2023


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