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Majestic, one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives built for the British Great Western Railway, 1891–1915; Majestic, a 100,000 cubic feet (2,800 m 3) balloon owned by British aviation pioneer Patrick Young Alexander in 1893; Majestic metro station, Bangalore, India; Majestic Bus Station, the old name for Kempegowda Bus Station in Bangalore, India
Kevin Adam Christie, known professionally as Majestic, is a musician from North London. His singles "Creeping in the Dark" (with Jungle 70), "Naughty Sesh" (with Tigermonkey), and " Set My Heart on Fire " (with The Jammin Kid and Celine Dion ) charted at numbers 75, 52, and 39 on the UK Singles Chart respectively.
By 1947, the United States had launched thousands of top-secret Project Mogul balloons carrying devices to listen for Soviet atomic tests. [1] [2] On June 4, researchers at Alamogordo Army Air Field in New Mexico launched a long train of these balloons; they lost contact with the balloons and balloon-borne equipment within 17 miles (27 km) of W.W. "Mac" Brazel's ranch near Corona, New Mexico ...
Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French, inventors of the Montgolfière-style hot air balloon; Jean Pierre Alfred Nadal, Siege of Paris 1870 French balloon aeronautist, 1871 lieutenant magasinier général des aérostiers civils et militaires [4] [5] Letitia Ann Sage (c.1750–1817), first British woman to ascend in a balloon
The balloon Humboldt, drawing by Hans Groß. The Berlin scientific balloon flights (Berliner wissenschaftliche Luftfahrten) were a series of 65 manned and 29 unmanned balloon flights carried out between 1888 and 1899 by the German Society for the Promotion of Aeronautics to investigate the atmosphere above the planetary boundary layer.
The 1988 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records recognizes the event as a world record "largest ever mass balloon release", with 1,429,643 balloons launched. [10] [11] Guinness no longer measures balloon releases. [12] Balloonfest '86 was the subject of the 2017 short documentary film Balloonfest. [13]
Dom Mariani is an Australian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. Mariani has been a member of several bands since the early 1980s, including The Stems, The Someloves, DM3, Datura4 and instrumental side project The Majestic Kelp.
Jesse Antoine Marcel Sr. (May 27, 1907 – June 23, 1986) was a major in the United States Air Force (later a lieutenant colonel in the Reserves) who helped administer Operation Crossroads, the 1946 atom bomb tests at the Bikini Atoll.