It’s September 12th, 1918, and at the controls of his SPAD S.XIII fighter sits 2nd Lieutenant Frank Luke. He’s about to take ...

He made his first ascent in a balloon he built himself on March 2, ... Early on he switched to hydrogen to fill his balloons, which gave more lift and, while quite flammable, ...

Pilatre de Rozier, a scientific experimenter, and François Laurent, the marquis D'Arlandes, became the first human beings to make a free flight on November 21. Less than two weeks later, on December 1 ...

Swedish engineer Salomon August Andrée and two companions wanted to fly a hydrogen balloon over the North Pole. Their Arctic mission didn’t go as planned.

Three crew members are safe after a hydrogen balloon on a transatlantic flight path had to make what the Transportation Safety Board is calling a precautionary landing in Prince Edward Island.

Space Perspective first caught our attention four years ago, when the Cape Canaveral-based startup announced its plans to make sightseeing balloon flights to an altitude of 100,000 feet (30,480 m).

The county's first hydrogen balloon flight has been recreated by aviation enthusiasts on its 240th anniversary. Father of immunology Edward Jenner took to the skies from the Inner Keep at Berkeley ...

PHILADELPHIA (WHTM) — By 1793 Jean Pierre François Blanchard was a major pioneer in the barely 10-year-old technology of lighter-than-air flight. He made his first ascent in a balloon he buil… ...

A post on the site said the balloon, "piloted by Bert Padelt and co-piloted by Peter Cuneo and Alicia Hempleman-Adams, will take flight as part of an audacious adventure of old friends on a journey ...