The iconic towers of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris are set to reopen on September, six years after the devastating fire. Visitors will once again climb the 420 steps to enjoy panoramic views of Paris ...

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The golden balloon that hovered in the sky above Paris during the Olympics is back, sailing above the city at dusk and visible from rooftops across the capital. Before it rises from the Tuileries ...

Spotted on Saturday June 14th in Thonex, a suburb on the east side of Geneva in Switzerland, a mock Montgolfier balloon attached to the platform of a large scissor lift. The event was the 60th ...

COSHOCTON − The Coshocton Hot Air Balloon Festival was held June 5-7, at the Coshocton County Fairgrounds with balloons taking to the skies and much more. The event started in 1981 and Frontier Power ...

The Great Balloon Race has been canceled for 2025, but pilots may be able to go up later in the day.

The idea was a nod to the hot air balloon invented by the Montgolfier brothers, the 18th century French aviation pioneers, that was launched in 1783 from the Tuileries gardens.

The history of balloon flight dates to 1783 when two French brothers, Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier discovered that filling a bag with hot air would cause it to rise.

First-time pilot joins Balloon Fiesta fun "I was born into it. My dad's been a balloon pilot since he got his license in 1980," said Truman Word ...

To inspect the large agricultural lands, we propose an autonomous hot-air balloon with an ecological design, able to circumvent the large cultivation areas, in particular the olive trees in the region ...

The Olympic cauldron is a tribute to the French inventors Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier who invented the Montgolfier-style hot air balloon in the late 18th century but ...