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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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