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This is a list of notable balloonists: Jean-Pierre Blanchard (French) and John Jeffries (American), first flight across the English Channel, 1785. [1] Sophie Blanchard (1778-1819), first professional female balloonist, first woman to pilot her own balloon, received honours from both Napoleon and Louis XVIII
Corominas was born in Spain in 1886. She trained as a circus acrobat, and by the turn of the 20th century was participating in the Circo Calderón in Spain. In 1904, she performed a solo aerial ascent in Barcelona, making her the first Spanish woman to make a solo ascent in a balloon. [1]
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Pablo Morillo y Morillo (1775–1837), Count of Cartagena and Marquess of La Puerta, a.k.a. El Pacificador (The Peace Maker) was a Spanish general who fought in the napoleonic wars and hispanoamerican war of independence. Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (1545–1592), Spanish general and military governor of the Spanish Netherlands
In 1898, during the Spanish-American War, Baldwin was the pilot of the hot air balloon that gave U.S. troops location information of Spanish snipers before the Battle of San Juan Hill. The balloon was shot down on June 30, 1898, and landed in the Aguadores River. Baldwin was later honorably discharged.
Matías Pérez (disappeared 28 June 1856) was a Portuguese-born Cuban resident who started a canopy business in Havana in the 19th century. He was fascinated with the ever-increasing popularity of hot-air balloons and became a balloon pilot, ascending at least three times before he disappeared while attempting a balloon ascent from Havana's Campo de Marte on 28 June 1856.