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Balloon & Autogyro

Two firsts in the history of human flight.

On January 9, 1793, Jean-​Pierre Blanchard became the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.

Precisely 13 decades later,  Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva, made the first autogyro flight.

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