First flight across the Channel
JAN 07, 2015
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.030869
On this day in 1785 pioneering balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard of France and American scientist John Jeffries became the first people to fly across the English Channel. Their balloon flight from Dover to Guînes took 2.5 hours.
Date in History: 7 January 1785
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