The Airship Rises to Fame (feature)

The Airship Rises to Fame was a feature published in Doctor Who Annual 1977.

It referred to the likes of the Montgolfier brothers, Jean Pierre Blanchard, John Jeffries, Henri Giffard, Alberto Santos-Dumant, and Walter Wellman.

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 * The Montgolfier brothers invented and crewed the first ever hot air balloon in 1784.
 * In January 1785, Jean Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries crossed the English Channel in a hot air balloon.