In case your interested today is the anniversary of the first New World flight. In 1793 Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard took off from Philadelphia's Walnut Street Prison with George Washington and other dignitaries watching. The balloon flight lasted 46 minutes with Blanchard landing across the Delaware River at the outskirts of Woodbury, NJ.
The word for today from my new desk calendar is Aeroflation which means passing through the air in balloons according to Webster's Compendious Dictionary, 1806.
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