{"id":17655,"date":"2024-03-06T01:45:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T15:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/first-balloon-flight-history\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T01:45:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T15:45:13","slug":"120-years-before-the-wright-brothers-the-story-of-the-worlds-first-balloon-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=17655","title":{"rendered":"120 Years Before The Wright Brothers: The Story Of The World&#8217;s First Balloon Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it is widely known that <a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/wright-brothers-120-years-first-powered-flight\/\">the Wright Brothers were the &quot;first to fly&quot; in 1903<\/a>, that depends on what one means by &#39;fly.&#39; The Wright brothers&#39; flight is qualified as the &quot;first successful, sustained, powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine&quot; by the <a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/airandspace.si.edu\/collection-objects\/1903-wright-flyer\/nasm_A19610048000\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum<\/a>. But air balloons are flying machines, too, considered lighter-than-air. The Wright brothers&#39; flight took place about 120 years ago, but the first human flight in a hot air balloon took place 120 years before that in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first lighter-than-air crewed flight took place in France long before the Wright brothers&#8217; famous first flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,5767,5766,3790,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-balloon","category-balloon-flight","category-first-flight","category-history"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17656,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17655\/revisions\/17656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}