A balloon in flight theatre manager With grey trousers and wearing

With grey trousers and wearing a red tie

St Barnabas Chapel

Herd tries a header

Plan of Kensington Palace and gardens

Stephen Mardenborough

A balloon in flight theatre manager With grey trousers and wearingScene showing a decorated balloon in flight at Faubourg Saint Antoine, France, on 19 October 1783. The balloon has a gallery or gondola for two passengers. Below can be seen a stepped platform with onlookers. Plate 8 from the book Description des expriences de la machine arostatiques de MM. de Montgolfier, by Faujas de Saint Fond (Paris, 1783). According to textual notes this balloon reached a height of 324 feet on the third in a sequence of flights