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Army men with parachute going up in hot air balloon blimp. WWI era photograph. / source: Houseofmirth on eBay. / related post, here

Army going up in hot air balloon blimp. WWI photo era. At Camp Dix. / source: Houseofmirth on eBay / related post, here

Jules Beau :: Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off on July 4, 1898 on Brazil

/ src and hi-res: Wikimedia

Photograph of dirigible race in the Dominguez Air Meet, Dominguez Field,
Los Angeles, 1910. Two football-shaped zeppelins race across the skies,
flying at low altitude. Each of them has single pilots. The pilots
stand on a skeletal structure consisting of metal bars that is attached
to the balloon with wires. Spectators (or judges) stand below on the
plain field watching the zeppelins race. Further in the sky is a balloon
with the phrase “all in the Examiner.”

[Copyright. 1910. CC Pierce & Co. written on photograph] / source: Aviation in_Early_LA

Photograph of two parachutists dropping from a balloon at the Dominguez
Hills Air Meet. The balloon appears to be on fire with smoke coming
out from its basket.

Dominguez Field, LA, 1910. / src: Water and Power Associates

Nils Strindberg ::

The “Örnen” / “Eagle”.

S. A. Andrée and Knut Frænkel with the crashed balloon on the pack ice,

of the disastrous Andrée’s Arctic Balloon expedition, 1897 [Photographed by the third expedition member, Nils Strindberg. The exposed film for this photograph and others from the failed 1897 expedition was recovered in 1930.] / src: wikimedia commons

Konrad Brandel :: Self-portrait in a balloon gondola, ca. 1865. Albumen print. Creative Commons – National Museum, Warsaw. / via Luminous-lint

Louis Paulhan flying near a gas-filled balloon in his Henry Farman biplane, during his record-breaking flight (4600 ft.) at Dominguez Field, January 12, 1910. Paulhan is sitting at the center of the front wings in this primitive biplane. His biplane passes a nearby balloon with one person piloting it. The advertisement painted on the balloon reads: “All in the Examiner”.

Henry Giffard’s moored hot air balloon in front of the ruins of the Tuileries, Paris, 1878

Henri Giffard’s captive balloon above Paris in 1878.