Balloons & Airships

The Year Ballooning Was an Olympic Event
The 1900 Olympic Games, held in Paris as part of the Exposition Universelle (World’s Fair), was the only year in which ballooning was an official event.
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Black and white photo. In the center are three men dressed in suits, the two in the right wearing derbys, the middle man in a top hat. Five hot air balloons in the background. The back of a man in a suit and derby is in the foreground in the lower left corner.

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Fri, Apr 03 2015
Fans of the National Air and Space Museum
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Decorative Fan from the Kendall Collection
Fri, Apr 11 2014
Antonie Strassmann - German Movie Star, American Entrepreneur, Cosmopolitan Pilot
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Antonie Strassmann
Mon, Mar 24 2014
The Big Jump
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Red Bull Stratos - Manned Flight Two: Felix Baumgartner
Fri, Feb 14 2014
Love is in the Air
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Jenkins-Boynton Wedding
Tue, Jan 28 2014
(Almost) True Comics!
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Colorful comic book rendition of balloon in combat.
Tue, Nov 05 2013
The Most Fashionable Balloon of the Civil War
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General Edward Porter Alexander
Thu, Jul 04 2013
Up in the Air on the Fourth
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Uncle Sam Postcard
Thu, Jun 21 2012
Watching the War From Above
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Thaddeus Lowe
Sat, Apr 07 2012
And Now, the Easter Balloon Bunny
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Easter Balloon Bunny Postcard
Mon, May 23 2011
Mr. Lincoln’s Air Force: Top 10 Reasons to visit the Museum on June 11th
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Thaddeus Lowe

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