The history of balloon flight dates to 1783, when two French brothers, Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier, discovered that filling a bag with hot air would ... by envelopes filled with buoyant gases ...

But people flew much earlier than that by using hot air balloons as well as gas-filled ones ... The home hacker should probably stick to unmanned balloons like the pair launched from the Hackaday ...

The massive helium balloons that will float through New York City for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade have been filled ...