Editing Hot air balloon (section)

===First manned flight===
[[File:Montgolfier Balloon.JPG|thumb|upright=0.8|A model of the Montgolfier brothers' balloon at the [[London Science Museum]]]]
The French brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne [[Montgolfier brothers|Montgolfier]] developed a hot-air balloon in [[Annonay]], [[Ardèche]], France, and demonstrated it publicly on September 19, 1783, making an unmanned flight lasting 10&nbsp;minutes. After experimenting with unmanned balloons and flights with animals, the first balloon flight with humans aboard, a tethered flight, performed on or around October 15, 1783, by Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier, who made at least one tethered flight from the yard of the Reveillon workshop in the [[Faubourg Saint-Antoine]]. Later that same day, Pilatre de Rozier became the second human to ascend into the air, reaching an altitude of {{convert|26|m|abbr=on}}, the length of the tether.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Guinness world records 2014 |last=Glenday |first=Craig |year=2013 |publisher=Guinness World Records Limited |isbn=978-1908843159 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessworldrec0000unse_r3e7}}</ref><ref>Tom D. Crouch (2009). Lighter Than Air.</ref> The first free flight with human passengers was made a few weeks later, on November 21, 1783.<ref name="centennialofflight.gov"/> King [[Louis XVI]] had originally decreed that condemned criminals would be the first [[Aviator|pilots]], but de Rozier, along with [[François Laurent d'Arlandes|Marquis François d'Arlandes]], petitioned successfully for the honor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.start-flying.com/Montgolfier.htm |title=Start-Flying: History of Balloon Flying |publisher=www.start-flying.com |access-date=2007-12-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webprojects2003/hetherington/final/montgolfier_bros.html |title=Lighter than air: The Montgolfier Brothers | access-date=2007-12-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal109/NEWHTF/ITM300.HTM |title=National Air and Space Museum: Pioneers of Flight gallery |access-date=2007-12-28 |archive-date=2008-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080406191335/http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/GAL109/NEWHTF/ITM300.HTM |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The [[History of military ballooning|first military use]] of a hot air balloon happened in 1794 during the [[Battle of Fleurus (1794)|battle of Fleurus]], when the French used the balloon {{lang|fr|l'Entreprenant}} for observation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/be-whtfl.html |title=Fleurus (Municipality, Province of Hainaut, Belgium) |publisher=CRW Flags Inc. |access-date=2010-04-21}}</ref>