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Review Exercise - 5.9 (Answers)

1. The French government formed an air arm to its Army.

2. Pierre Blanchard and Dr. John Jeffries were the first men to fly from England to France in a balloon.

3. Pierre Blanchard was the first man to pilot a balloon in the United States.

4. Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, in 1804, set several altitude records of over 20,000 feet.

5. The British Association for the Advancement of Science was an organization that used balloons for high­altitude atmospheric studies.


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