«It is fitting that Étienne Montgolfier was the first human to lift off the earth, making at least one tethered flight from the yard of the Réveillon workshop in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. It was most likely on October 15, 1783. A little while later on that same day, Pilâtre de Rozier became the second to ascend into the air, to an altitude of 80 feet (24 m), which was the length of the tether.» en:wiki - citando: Tom Davis. Crouch (2009). Lighter Than Air. The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 28, 178. &citando Charles Gillispie (1983). The Montgolfier Brothers, and the Invention of Aviation. Princeton University Press. pp. 45, 46, 178, 179, 183–185.
