As one reporter later recounted of Balloonfest ‘86: “It was like almost a volcano when it went off” ...

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Disaster was narrowly averted as a hot air balloon attempted to land in a residential street in Bedford. Footage shows the aircraft just a couple of metres away from the rooftops of homes on Bower ...

After the Montgolfier brothers launched the first hot air balloon from Versailles in 1783, much of Europe caught balloon fever, with hundreds of experimenters eager to launch their own. One of these ...

Europe was in the middle of a balloon craze. Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier had given the first public demonstration of a hot-air balloon at Annonay, France, on June 4, 1783. On ...

As one reporter later recounted of Balloonfest '86: “It was like almost a volcano when it went off" Bettmann Archive/Getty Balloonfest '86 promised to raise publicity for the still-rebounding city of ...