Editing Montgolfier brothers (section)

===Other balloons, competing claims===

Some claim that the hot air balloon was invented about 74 years earlier by the Brazilian/Portuguese priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão]].<ref>[http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/cvc/ciencia/p2.html Reis, Fernando. ''Bartolomeu de Gusmão''.Ciência em Portugal.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070119182148/http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/CVC/ciencia/p2.html |date=19 January 2007 }} Centro Virtual Camões, in Portuguese</ref> A description of his invention was published in 1709(?) in Vienna, and another one was found in the Vatican in about 1917.<ref>[http://purl.pt/706/3/ Gusmao, Bartolomeu de.] ''{{lang|fr|Reproduction fac-similé d'un dessin à la plume de sa description et de la pétition addressée au Jean V. (de Portugal) en langue latine et en écriture contemporaine (1709) retrouvés récemment dans les archives du Vatican du célèbre aéronef de Bartholomeu Lourenco de Gusmão "l'homme volant" portugais, né au Brésil (1685–1724) précurseur des navigateurs aériens et premier inventeur des aérostats.}}'' 1917 (Lausanne: Impr. Réunies S. A.) {{in lang|fr|la}}</ref> However, this claim is not generally recognized by aviation historians outside the Portuguese-speaking community, in particular the [[Fédération Aéronautique Internationale]].

On 1 December 1783, a few months after the Montgolfiers' first flight, [[Jacques Alexandre César Charles]] rose to an altitude of about {{cvt|3|km}} near Paris in a hydrogen-filled balloon he had developed.

In early 1784, the Flesselles balloon, named after the unfortunate [[Jacques de Flesselles]], later to be an early casualty of the [[French Revolution]] at the Bastille, gave a rough landing to its passengers.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gillispie|first=Charles|title=The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation 1783–1784 : With a Word on the Importance of Ballooning for the Science of Heat and the Art of Building Railroads|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=1983|isbn=978-0691083216|location=Princeton, NJ|pages=76}}</ref>

In June 1784, the ''Gustave'' (a hot air balloon christened ''La Gustave'' in honour of King [[Gustav III]] of Sweden's visit to Lyon) saw the first female aeronaut, [[Élisabeth Thible]].