Ballooning: Extraordinary Adventures in Flight

The history of balloon flight is an exhilarating tale of ingenuity, daring, adventure, history-making achievements, and technical prowess.

The very idea of gravity-defying flight reveals the raw human and technological ingenuity behind the story of ballooning. Since the Montgolfier brothers' pioneering flight in 1783, Paris has been center stage for a succession of extraordinary firsts. Piloted by colorful personalities, balloons have been at the origin of innovative and daring adventures, f...