On #ThisDayinHistory 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft. | HISTORY

This week 122 years ago, the Wright brothers made the first successful powered flight | AviationCircle

🎈In 1783, in France, the Montgolfier brothers, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, launched the first hot air balloon capable of carrying a human. On November 21, 1783, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes became the first humans to fly freely in the sky. NOTE:VOICE IS GENERATED BY AI FOR EDUCATIONAL AND CREATIVE USE. #hotairballoon #FirstFlight #AirTechnology #technology #science #sciencefacts #sciencefactsdaily #ScienceReels #knowledge #knowledgefacts #fa

June 5th is National Hot Air Balloon Day! This day commemorates the day Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier gave a public demonstration of an unmanned hot air balloon flight on June 5, 1783 in France. This experiment by the Montgolfier brothers led to test flights with passengers in November 1783. For today, Howard letterpress printed an image from an electrotype (copy of a woodcut) of a hot air balloon. We wish we knew more about this cut, especially the significance of the flags in the print. This