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In this episode of Skip the Queue, Andy Povey sits down with Jérôme Giacomoni, co-founder and Chairman of AEROPHILE, the world leader in tethered gas balloons and immersive aerial experiences. Jérôme shares the story of how AEROPHILE began with a simple idea, to “make everybody fly” and grew into a global company operating in multiple countries, including France and the U.S.Tune in to hear about the company's signature attractions, including tethered balloon flights, the innovative Aerobar concept, and high-profile projects such as how you can experience flying the Olympic cauldron in Paris. Jérôme also shares how AEROPHILE has leveraged its unique platform to explore scientific initiatives like air-quality and climate-change monitoring and how he Integrates unique revenue streams from sponsorship and advertising.Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is Paul Marden, with co host Andy Povey and roving reporter Claire Furnival.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website SkiptheQueue.fm.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on LinkedIn. Show references:  https://www.aerophile.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerome-giacomoni-3074b7/Jérôme Giacomoni is co-founder of Groupe AEROPHILE and Chairman of AEROPHILE SAS. Since 1993, he has led the company to become the world leader in tethered gas balloons and balloon flights, operating iconic sites in France, the U.S., and Cambodia, and flying over 500,000 passengers annually. He also pioneered “flying food-tainment” with the Aerophare and Aerobar. Jérôme is a member of IAAPA, serves on the board of SNELAC, and is a Team France Export ambassador, earning multiple awards for entrepreneurship and innovation. Plus, live from the Day 2 of the IAAPA Expo Europe show floor, we catch up with:Rheanna Sorby –Marketing & Creative Director,  The Seasonal Grouphttps://theseasonalgroup.co.uk/https://www.linkedin.com/in/rheanna-sorby-seasonal/Sohret Pakis – Polin Waterparkshttps://www.polin.com.tr/https://www.linkedin.com/in/sohretpakis/Thomas Collin – Sales Manager, VEX Solutionshttps://www.vex-solutions.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-collin-18a476110/Peter Cliff – CEO // Founder, Conductr.https://conductr.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-cliff/Laura Baxter – Founder, Your CMOhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-baxter-4a756466/Josh Haywood – Resort Director, Crealy Theme Park & Resorthttps://www.crealy.co.uk/https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-haywood-68463630/ Transcriptions:  Paul Marden: Welcome to Skip the Queue, the podcast about the world's best attractions and the people that work in them. I'm your host Paul Marden, and with my co-host Andy Povey and roving reporter Claire Furnival, we're here at IAAPA Expo Europe. In today's episode, I go on a trip on Santa's Enchanted Elevator with the Seasonal Group, and Claire meets Peter Cliff from Conductr. But before all that, let's head over to Andy.Andy Povey: Good morning, everybody. I'm joined today by Jerome Giacomoni from AEROPHILE for our French listeners. I hope I've got that right. Jerome is the chief exec of AEROPHILE and has been the co-founder and president of AEROPHILE. And AEROPHILE supply helium-based balloon observation opportunities. I probably got the marketing on that completely wrong, Jerome. So please, can you share with our listeners what AEROPHILE is all about?Jerome Giacomoni: So AEROPHILE is a company I created with Mathieu Gobbi, my partner, 32 years ago, with a very simple idea, make everybody fly, you know, and we use a balloon to fly. So we have a tethered balloon. We have a huge, big balloon inflated with helium, a gas lighter than air. And we go up to more or less 150 meters high. up to 30 passengers. So we are linked to the ground with a cable, and the cable is linked to a winch. So you have to imagine that you have a winch that— when we go up—pulls when we go down. This is the exact opposite of an elevator because the balloon wants to go higher and higher. We have a lifting force of four tons.Andy Povey:Wow.Jerome Giacomoni:Yes, it's a big one. And so we need a cable to keep it. And thanks to this lifting force, we can fight against the wind.Jerome Giacomoni: And so the balloon can swing when you have some wind because the balloon is just pulled by the cable itself.Andy Povey: And trust me, listeners, they look absolutely spectacular. Just before we started recording, I was admitting to Jerome that I'm scared of heights. So I've stood and watched. The dining balloon, Futuroscope, never managed to pluck up the courage to try it myself.Jerome Giacomoni: This is another concept, Andy. So we have built two concepts. One is a tethered balloon, a real one with helium, with a cable, with a winch, and we fly by ourselves. The balloon flies by itself, okay? We did another concept 20 years after we created our company, so 10 years before now, in 2013, which is what we call the aero bar. It's a flying bar, and you have an inflatable balloon. to cover the gondola, but it's a fake. This is a real elevator, and you have a gondola with some winches and a metallic structure, and you go up and down. So what you saw in Futuroscope is not a balloon. It's a real elevator.Jerome Giacomoni: And the one you can see in Disneyland Paris, Disney World, Orlando or San Diego Zoo are a real balloon named a tethered balloon. So I'm glad you fell down into the trick. You caught me. Yes, I'm glad about that. But we have really two different concepts.Andy Povey: But the concept, the thing that the guest is experiencing, isn't really related to whether it's a balloon or a lift.Jerome Giacomoni: No. i think it's very different okay i think the aerobar is fun and you have the feet in the sky you feel the thrill of height and everything but you stop at 35 meters it's it's quite high for a ride but it's not a real flight And I think the balloon is a real flight. We have a balloon in Paris. We have a balloon in Budapest, Berlin. And you see the city from the sky at 150 meters high, which is very high. So you really experience a flight. With the aerobar, you have a ride, okay? So both of them are related to the sky, are related to the view, but one is really a flight, the other one is really a ride.Andy Povey: That makes absolute sense.Andy Povey: It doesn't reassure me on my fear of heights anymore, that I would like to go up three times, four times taller, higher than the one I saw first. Very interesting. So, listeners, we're often talking about technology and attractions. There's a huge amount of talk about augmented reality, about AI, about motion simulators. The reason, Jerome, we asked you to come and talk to us is because you don't do any of that. No—your experience is fantastic and it's new and it's unique, but there's no technology or very little obvious technology.Jerome Giacomoni: Yes, quite little. You know, it's amazing because we do this for now 32 years, as I told you. The first balloon was inflated in 1994. We have sold 120 balloons in more than 40 countries. And each time with the balloon, you have a magical effect, you know, because the balloon itself is very nice— because the balloon itself is a show from people looking at it from the ground. And because... The flight experience is amazing because you are really in the sky. You are really looking at the ground, at the landscape. You have no noise, you know, when you take a helicopter or plane. You have a lot of noise. You are in an enclosed airplane or helicopter. Here you are outside. You are on a balcony flying at 150 meters. And wherever we are, always we have like a magical effect of the flight. And with the flying bar, we decided to do something different— where we say, 'Why drink on ground where you can drink in the sky?'Jerome Giacomoni: So we add the drink to the ride, you know. So you are on a table and you have what we say in French conviviality. So we share a drink. We go at 35 meters and you have the thrill of the view of the height and also the conviviality of drinking. So this is another concept, but both of them are universal. And wherever we do it, we have sold 20 aero bars worldwide.Jerome Giacomoni: Everybody is very happy to have this kind of ride. I would say we are on the side of the main market. You know, we have two niche products. The balloon is a niche product. And the AeroBar is a niche product where we have another experience than a normal ride, like a roller coaster or a flume or a spinning coaster.Andy Povey: You say you're a nice product, but the balloon in Paris for the Olympics, where you lifted the cauldron, had phenomenal numbers of visitors watching. That wasn't something you could go on.Jerome Giacomoni: Yes, it was an amazing opportunity. You know, sometimes life gives you some presents.Jerome Giacomoni: And imagine that we were contacted by the Olympic Organisation Committee one day, and we believed it was a joke. And they said, 'We need to talk to you.' And then we discovered that instead of flying humans, they asked us to fly a cauldron. So the Olympic cauldron. And we have like one year and a half of design and manufacturing.Jerome Giacomoni: And then, at 11 pm, 25, the balloon has to fly in front of everybody. I can tell you it was a very stressful time. But so nice and so amazing to have experiences. So, yes, the balloon suddenly was visible by everybody. And that's back now in Paris, isn't it? Yes. First of all, the balloon has to stay only twice— 15 days. You know, you have the Olympics and the Paralympics. So we were open only 30 days in total. And the success was so huge that every night, you have dozens of thousands of people coming to look at it. That's why the mayor of Paris and the French president decided to keep it.Jerome Giacomoni: And just after the deflation of the balloon, they call us back and say, 'Jerome and Mathieu, we would like to have the balloon back.' So we work again with the city of Paris and the French presidency, and we agreed to put the balloon.Jerome Giacomoni: Three times, three months. So from June 21st, in France, this is a music event, you know, the Day of Music. To September 14th, which is a day of sport. So every year until the Olympic game of LA, we will operate the balloon for three months in the summertime. Fantastic.Andy Povey: So, Jerome, you operate in lots and lots of different countries all over the world. I think it's 14 countries that you've been.Jerome Giacomoni: No, we sold, but we operate only in the US and in France.Andy Povey: Ah, okay. Interesting.Jerome Giacomoni: We own ourselves, we operate ourselves, six balloons in the 120 we have sold. So we operate three in Paris region. One, the Parc André Citroën, where we have the Generali balloon since 1999. One in Disneyland Paris since 2005. So we are in Disneyland Paris for now 20 years. Time is flying. And the last one, the Cold Run, which is a very specific event that we operate now for one year and for the next two years. And in the US, we operate Disney World Orlando in Disney Spring since 2009, and San Diego Zoo Safari Park since 2005, and Irvine. South of LA since 2007. So we operate now six balloons for a long, long time, except the cold run. And we keep selling balloons.Jerome Giacomoni: We sell more or less five to six balloons every year.Andy Povey: And how do you find the differences between the French culture and you're on either side of America, so the differences between the different coasts of America and France?Jerome Giacomoni: Yes, we... We are in the US, but we are also in Mexico, in a lot of countries in Asia. In the Middle East, we have a beautiful balloon in Dubai. We have a beautiful balloon in Seoul. So we work a lot with very different cultures. You know, it's very interesting to sell the same product to different cultures. So I would say... The main difference probably lies in the contract. It's very funny when you make the contract. I would say a 'yes' is not the same 'yes' depending on the culture. But everybody is, you know, you... You love people when you work worldwide. You learn a lot, you discover a lot. You have to learn with different cultures. And I have the chance in my professional life to experience that and to meet people from all over the world. And, you know, my job is to go on site, and discuss with someone, and see if it's possible or not to have a balloon at this place.Jerome Giacomoni: So it's always a beautiful job because I travel in a lot of countries in beautiful spots.Jerome Giacomoni: We don't succeed a lot because, if not, I would have sold thousands of balloons. We have always constraints with local authority, with food traffic, etc. But always, it's a pleasure to meet people. And once... The balloon is accepted by the local authority when the customer has a finance for it. Then start more or less a one-year work together between installation, work on site, inflation, and training of the team. And after... They fly with their own wings, even if we have no wings with our balloons.Andy Povey: Very good. And I imagine that you don't put balloons into ugly places.Jerome Giacomoni: We did, sometimes for specific contracts. Ugly, I won't use this name, but not very obvious, logical site. But it has happened. Sometimes we do for small events or for specific needs.Jerome Giacomoni: But yes, most of the time, the sites are very interesting.Andy Povey: So there are other things you're doing with the balloons. So the air quality messaging that you have above Paris. Tell us more about your opportunities to influence in other areas.Jerome Giacomoni: Yes, you know, the balloon is not only a ride, a passenger ride, but it's also an amazing opportunity for communication and for advertisement. So in the city center, like Paris, Berlin, or Seoul, the balloon is used also as a giant advertising billboard. So you have two revenues. You have the revenue of the passenger, but you have also the sponsor revenue.Jerome Giacomoni: When we started the balloon in Paris, it was extremely difficult to get the authorisation to have a balloon in Paris centre. We are two kilometres south of the Eiffel Tower. But you remember, we had the famous Millennium, the Y2K. uh and and so the mayor faris was looking for a new idea and we propose a balloon And they gave us only a one year and a half contract. And the investment was quite huge. And we told him, OK, we can do it, but we cannot do it for only one year and a half. Except if you accept that we have a name on the balloon, a naming and a sponsor on the balloon. And the mayor say yes. And we start another business where we put sponsor on the balloon. And this is a very good business because it makes a... activity immediately profitable so we did that in Paris in 1999 and in 2008 the balloon was like 10 years old because when you fly you have your the balloon is huge we talk about a 32 meters high balloon we talk about like a 12-story building.Jerome Giacomoni: So everybody knows the balloon in Paris. Everybody can see it. And so, when we fly, we have 400,000 people who immediately see us. So we decided to give citizen aspect. And we start— pour changer le couleur de la balle selon la qualité de l'air. C'était en 2008. Et parce que nous l'avons fait, nous avons des scientifiques... coming to us and say, 'Hey, this balloon is a wonderful platform to measure air quality because you make like a carrot of the air from zero to 150 meters. Jerome Giacomoni:  Can we bring some scientist instrument on the gondola? And we say yes. And then we start to make science. And then we start to make scientific publications, scientific publications. And then we start a new business where the balloon is not only a tethered gas balloon for passenger, it's only... advertising billboard and now it's only a scientific platform and so this is very interesting and the last things we have done in 2024 no this year in 2025 is to use the balloon for global climate change. As you know, we have two main gas pollutants for the climate change, CO2 and CH4. And the balloon is a perfect platform to measure evolution on CO2 and CH4. So we are working with a European group named ICOS. gathering all the best laboratories in Europe, who are making a huge study on how CO2 and CH4 how they are in each city.Jerome Giacomoni: And Paris has been chosen as a pilot city. So we are very glad to work with them. And so now the Balloon is also working on climate change. And we will have big, big, big LED screen. So we make some technology sometime, as you said, to inform people on the temperature elevation in Europe and in the world. And the news are very bad, as everybody knows.Andy Povey: But that's fascinating. I love the integration you've been able to take from this unique proposition and apply it to different markets, different problems.Jerome Giacomoni: You know, Andy, I think we have to exit from the box. My message to... all people who are listening to us.Jerome Giacomoni: Okay, passenger rides is very important. It's a key market for many of us. But sometimes we can use... another way to find new flow of revenue, like advertising, and we can be also helpful to our other citizens, like working freely for scientists to make measurements on pollutants of the air. This helps with both air quality and also climate change.Andy Povey: It's a beautiful concept, Jerome. I love it. Love it.Andy Povey: So, final question. Your experiences are obviously very unique. What advice would you have for a venue and possibly a smaller venue that doesn't have the resources to be able to build something 150 metres high or put something 150 metres into the air? What advice would you give them on how to make a compelling experience for visitors?Jerome Giacomoni: I really believe that you have to stick on your roots, okay? I mean that people want authenticity.Jerome Giacomoni: And as you know, we are very keen on balloons, as you can imagine. So we make in our, you know, Paris, it's in Paris where you have the first flight. Yeah. In 1783. Montgolfier, brothers. Yes, with the Montgolfier brothers, with Charles, the scientist. So we really stick on our roots. And I think where you are in Brittany, where you are in Japan, you have to follow your own road and your own path. By feeling what could be the good idea, but also what is your feeling inside you. You need to have something different that you feel very confident with.Andy Povey: Beautiful final thought, Jerome, I like it a lot. So listeners, stay authentic and be passionate.Jerome Giacomoni: Exactly, the right word is passionate.Paul Marden: Next up, let's get some soundbites from the show floor.Rheanna  Sorby: My name's Rheanna. I'm Marketing and Creative Director for the Seasonal Group. We are curators of Christmas magic all year round. Wow, wow.Paul Marden: So you make Christmas special?Rheanna  Sorby: We're the Christmas elves.Paul Marden: Awesome, awesome. I can see you've got such a great set of stands. What have you got here that you're exhibiting for the first time?Rheanna  Sorby: We have Santa's Enchanted Express, which is a three-minute experience that transports customers and guests from a very festive train station to the North Pole in just under three minutes. So it's quite a Christmas miracle. And it also transports on nine pallets. So it's a great return on investment for customers there if it's 24 people on. We also have our elevator experience, which went viral last year. And then we have VR, animatronics, and a lot of our famous items, like the snowman here, just dressed as a little, it's some sort of operator.Paul Marden: Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. So we don't have a lot of luck with lifts at the moment because the team got stuck in a lift yesterday for about 45 minutes. Stop it. We got rescued by the... Well, I didn't get in the lift. I walked because there wasn't enough room. But two of them had to be rescued by the fire brigadeRheanna  Sorby: Okay, so this might be triggering. Well, you know.Paul Marden: Oh, no, I found it hilarious.Paul Marden: I was hugely supportive on the outside, yelling into them.Paul Marden: But Santa won't let me get stuck in a lift today, will he? Absolutely not.Rheanna  Sorby: No, there's an emergency exit. Excellent.Paul Marden: So what's new and innovative then about the Santa Express? What are you bringing to market?Rheanna  Sorby: So a lot of our clients, we sell business to business. They're struggling to get people into shopping centres and we're finding that we need to create retail theatre. So that is something I see as a massive trend moving forward. People want nostalgia. They want an experience, something memorable. But also our customers need a way to return investment as well. So they hopefully will spend something with us and then ticket the experience. So that's something that we're pivoting our business towards. Trying to create a brand new experience every year. A lot of people are struggling nowadays, cost of living.Paul Marden: Yeah, absolutely.Rheanna  Sorby: It's difficult, so we're trying to find a way that brings the Christmas magic to people's doors.Paul Marden: We are, where are we at the moment? We're in September, so we've still got a couple of months left before Christmas 2025, but that must be over for you.Rheanna  Sorby: No, the quality of the street is on the shelves. It's already happening. The install season starts literally on Monday for us. Really? Yes. When we get back, we land and then we start installing.Paul Marden: And so this is the busy time. So let's talk about Christmas 2026. What are the trends that you see coming along at that point?Rheanna  Sorby: Whimsical, whimsical. So we've got Wicked number two coming out. And we've also had all like the Whoville, that sort of style, the Grinch. So imagine pastels, furry trees, things that don't quite make sense, a lot of whimsical wonderland, I would say, trend-wise. But equally immersive experiences and how we can bring magic to you.Paul Marden: Wonderful, wonderful. Thank you ever so much. Rheanna, it's been lovely to meet you. Thank you for coming on the podcast. And let's go and visit Santa in his lift, shall we? Yeah, excellent.Paul Marden: And here it is. So we are surrounded by suites in an old-fashioned lift. And there's our doors closed.Paul Marden: Oh, how amazing is this? We're going up.Paul Marden: Ice like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The Great Glass Elevator. This is amazing. We're up over the clouds. Just stunning. There's a train there. I think we're going to follow into the tunnel after the train. Yes.Paul Marden: Got cold, now we're underground. Now we're in the tunnel.Paul Marden: And I think this might be Santa's factory.Paul Marden: Let's get ready.Paul Marden: Merry Christmas. The big man's chair as well. Can I take a seat in the big man's chair? Ho, ho, ho.Sohret Pakis: Hi, Paul. My name is Shorhet Pakis. I'm the brand ambassador for Polin Waterparks.Paul Marden: What are you launching this year at IAAPA? What's new for you?Sohret Pakis:Last year, we have won two big awards for a themed water slide, which is... Stingray it was in Nantes in France and it was something big because you know it was like Europeans best water slide number one and I have a brass ring award winner about two million number one but last night in Porta Ventura Stingray has won the second time best water slide of Europe award. But we have something new about it. Last year when I was telling about Stingray, it was an eight-person slide. This year we have something new. Now the capacity went up to 10, especially when we're talking about all these queue management issues. So that's something wonderful. And also, you ask, what is new? This year, we have something very exciting. A parrot-themed stingray. It's the same slide, but it's parrot-themed.Sohret Pakis: It's coming to Dubai by January. It's going to be open.Paul Marden: So can I ask you, what makes that innovative? What's new about that?Sohret Pakis: Actually, it's a very specifically themed waterslide. You know that POLIN has been pioneer in RTM manufacturing and U-texture. It's kind of a composite material technology which we can make waterslides look.  Look like a character, actually. We are the company who did this first because we said that storytelling is very important. Yes, but you know, slides are just slides. So we just wanted the slides look like the characters in that story. Of course, behind that, there is huge material technology, composites technology, design technologies. Actually, that's the time when we introduced King Cobra years ago. And now with Stingray, we took it much further. So actually, the team looks perfectly like a Stingray, but at the same time, it's a water slide with so many features. It has two big towers and between the towers, there's a bridge. From each tower, two slides start with a very special mist roofing and very special bridge where you can just see what's happening all over the slide.Paul Marden: So the queuing experience is enriched so it doesn't feel quite so long and boring because you can watch what everyone is doing.Sohret Pakis: It is, yes.Paul Marden: Super impressive. So we have been asking everybody to think about what are their predictions for 2026?Sohret Pakis: Everybody is talking about AI. Everybody is talking about immersive. So AI, of course, will make a huge difference in operation, especially.Paul Marden: In what way?Sohret Pakis: Actually, in guest satisfaction, because personalisation is very important in our industry. Whoever comes to the park, they are the heroes at the park. And so actually, if the park can make them feel that they are the heroes, truly— if that's their birthday, if that's their wedding anniversary, so whatever. If the park can make you feel that you're special, and thanks to technology, now it's possible.Paul Marden: Absolutely. That's so interesting. Thank you so much for your insights and for joining us on Skip the Queue. Thank you.Thomas Collin: I'm Thomas, I'm from VEX Solutions, so we are a VR company at the start, and now we're going to the arcade with mixed reality as well. Okay, so that's a nice link. What are you launching here at IAFA? So here for the first time we are introducing VEX Party Dash. The Party Dash is a mixed reality arcade machine. So automated, people can go on it, play on it. You have two huge screens that are really highly interactive. You can walk on the screen, you can touch the screen. The goal is really to make you moving. So that's what we want to do with the Dash.Paul Marden: That's amazing, isn't it? So we're watching people at the moment. You can see lights up on the floor that they're stepping on and on the wall.Thomas Collin: What is really the key aspect of this product is that it's highly attractive. People, they just go around, they stop by it, they want to try it. Actually, we can say, 'Hey, come and try it,' because we watch you, we see you. So we can say, 'Hey, come and try it.' And people stop by, they play it. It's highly immersive, but also highly active. Yes. You're just not standing on an arcade, sitting down. No, you're really moving around. So, this is really good for kids and families. Absolutely. That's what we see.Paul Marden: So, where do you see this being used? What sort of attractions will take this?Thomas Collin: Actually, with this product, it can go either in the attraction side or either at the arcade side. So, you can play it as one game, and you can play a three-minute game like an arcade, or you can actually book for 15 minutes. Since there is not a single game, but multiple games, you can play different games, you can play different levels inside the main gate. So you have a high replayability. Because we want you to come back, we want to attract the gamers, and then make them come back.Paul Marden: 15 minutes with this much activity sounds like quite a tall order. It's a workout.Thomas Collin: It's a workout. It's a workout. Yeah, yeah, yeah.Peter Cliff: Hi, my name is Pete Cliff. I'm from Conductr. We're here in Barcelona and it's so exciting to be back at IAAPA. Now, what we're super excited about this year is talking about our collaboration with Norwegian Cruise Lines on Great Stirrup Cay. It's their new water park. It's a great project. We're excited to talk to people about it. It's also lovely to be back in Barcelona. It's been, I think, about six years since we were last back here, and it's always one of my favourite European cities for IAPA. It's great to meet with people from the industry, reconnect with old colleagues and friends, and really see what's happening. There's a huge amount of innovation and special projects that are launching all over the show floor. So yeah, great to be back, and can't wait to see what the future of the themed entertainment industry has to offer.Laura Baxter: My name is Laura Baxter. You may know me as the girl with the purple jumpsuit on LinkedIn. I am the head of marketing for Black Gang Shine, but have most recently just announced that I've gone into freelancing and I've launched your CMO.Paul Marden: And I have to say, the jumpsuits work because I was about 50 metres behind you earlier on and I spotted the Your CMO logo on the back of the jumpsuit, so well done for that. We've talked to a lot of suppliers with stands that are exhibiting. From your perspective, this is your first time stepping over to the dark side and coming to an IAPA. What's the experience like for you? What are you here to get out of the show?Laura Baxter: I'd say it's twofold. Mainly it is for networking. Obviously anybody who's anyone in the industry is here. But also, it's inspiration because I want to be able to talk about new and exciting stuff with... Potential clients that I may have and ideas still for Black Gang as well. So, when you walk around show floor, which is just so vibrant and there's so much going on everywhere—you turn, you can draw inspiration from so many of the suppliers here.Paul Marden: What have you seen that's innovative?Laura Baxter: There's a huge amount of stuff being done with tech and it's very interesting because I think that's where a lot of people are going to think that they need to go, because that's the way of the world now, and the next generation don't know life off of a screen and they're expecting to have these incredible digital experiences.Laura Baxter: I'm not convinced that is the way to go. But yes, it's still impressive tech. So for me, there are things that I stand back out and look at and I'm like, 'Whoa, that's really, really cool.'Laura Baxter: I'm not so sure it's potentially what consumers want, though, controversially.Paul Marden: It's really hard, isn't it? Because as a parent of young kids, you want them off the tech as much as you possibly can. But you need a hook. To be able to attract them, don't you? So there's been some amazing stuff here that bridges that gap between the real world and the tech world. So, summer season 2025 is over. What are your predictions about summer 26 and what operators should be thinking about right now?Laura Baxter: It's a really tough market, we all know that. Budgets are tight for households, so there is an awful lot more thought going into their spending and what they're doing and where they're choosing to take that little bit of disposable money that they do have. Therefore actually I don't think next year operators should be thinking about huge innovations or new attractions. I think they need to strip back to basics and nail their customer service. I think guest expectations now are so high. because they're parting with money that is a little bit more precious to them than perhaps if they don't leave at the end of that day having had a good experience they feel ripped off they're going to go straight to review platforms they're going to let it all out and actually you need to be focusing on making sure that every single touch point with that customer is bang on and we're talking pre-visit as well from the your website journey to buying it to the follow-up emails to the pre-visit emails to that first person they meet on front of house to the ride operators to the events team if you have that kind of entertainment on park if you are not nailing your experienceLaura Baxter: You are going to lose out well.Paul Marden: I think we should end it right there. That there is a nugget of gold.Paul Marden: So I am here with co-host Andy Povey and our good friend Josh Haywood from Crealy down in Devon.Josh Haywood: Hello.Paul Marden: It's the end of day two. What have you seen, Josh? What's blown your socks off?Josh Haywood: Good couple of days so far. We're probably into 40,000 steps, which is great. I think technology is the thing that struck me this week so far. Just the small changes that some of the operators and some of the manufacturers are putting into their existing kits. So, for example, I attended a seminar this morning about bowling. and normally temping bowling is temping bowling. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But now there's augmented reality, and they've got features on the lanes, and it's not about just taking all the pins down, it's taking pin one and six out, and all those things they're trying to do to reinvent older, more traditional attractions, which I think I find really interesting. Yeah. I think some of the seasonality stuff, the Christmas and Halloween stuff has been really good. We sat on a train and went on a journey and the seats rumbled and the sound and the visual effects, they were great.Paul Marden: I saw that. There was no room for me to go and sit on that train. It was amazing.Josh Haywood: I thought that was really good. And, you know, I've been really impressed with generally the show. I think you can get around it all as well. It feels really friendly. I think the sun shining always helps as well. It's not too tough, is it?Paul Marden: I mean, the last time we were in Barcelona, we were all wearing face masks. Absolutely, yes. So it's really refreshing to be back here. And not have that.Josh Haywood: Absolutely. And not have to queue to get in as well. I think that was interesting on the first day.Paul Marden: Oh, did they see you and then just wave you through?Josh Haywood: Red carpet was up for, of course, award-winning theme park and resort. Paul Marden: Mr. Hayward. Did you say award? Winnie and obviously you're on the back of your two awards in the theme park awards last week. How was that? And then we've got some really exciting news from Creeley.Josh Haywood: I saw it at the press this morning. Yes, so a couple of things happened last week. So first of all, we had our anniversary 25 years of Maximus the Coaster. The Vekoma Coaster, 25 years. The first coaster in Devon. It was Devon's first coaster, over half a million riders later. It's done 2 million miles around the track. It's great. So we did a sort of event for that, and we used it to sort of make some announcements about future attractions, which I'll tell you about in a minute. But then we went to the Theme Park Awards last week at Wickste Park, where... We've been the recipients of a few bronze and silvers, and we go being little old us and hope for the best. And then the award I really wanted to win was one of two: the best for families and the best for value. And when the family award came up, they said, 'In bronze is such and such, in silver.' And I was like, 'Well, there you go.' That's all that's left for another year. And then when they said the win at gold was cruelly for best for families, we were delighted. I got a bit emotional about it. I think we would just work so hard over the years to be the best in the Southwest, certainly. And certainly since we put Sootyland in as well. We won the award for Toddlers.Josh Haywood: So it was a double wham. And within 10 minutes as well. It wasn't separated. Within 10 minutes, I just got my breath back from the first one. And then we were up on stage again taking that second award. Oh, it's tough, isn't it? Which was great, yeah. Multi-award winning. Multi-award winning theme parking resort. Devon's finest. Most right in Devon. We're just going to... absolutely bleep the hell out of this for the next 12 months because who knows we may not win it again so we'll just shout from the treetops about this and then we also won thanks to martin rose and rose events uh silver for best entertainment event for the city show It's still very popular, the legacy brand. People love the Sooty show. And as I said at the awards, we sell loads of those puppets. People love a Sooty and a Sweep. So it's been a really good collaboration for us.Paul Marden: We were at our first away day for our Merak team back a few months ago down at Creeley, and I found a little sooty puppet underneath the lectern. I was absolutely chuffed to bits. And there he was, just sitting at the front of the away day, watching everything going on with Sue next to him.Josh Haywood: He's still popular. We understood when we put Cityland in, it wasn't going to be Peppa Pig. world and we didn't think for a minute we'd even sort of get to those heights of Thomas Land at Drayton Manor but it certainly hit a chord with the older market certainly the nannies and the granddads who remember such from when they were kids and you know it's a legacy brand and it works but what we have done really well is sort of corner that market for younger children and toddlers and we Sort of took some comments over the last 12 to 18 months that we may be missing the mark when it comes to the 8 to 12-year-olds, which we were pretty good at five or six years ago. So we've decided this year that we're going to invest in some thrill attractions. So we've just launched news that we've got two new rides going in next year. One, I can't tell you exactly because we're still going under. Got some planning issues, but we're going to have the Southwest tallest ride and the Southwest first inverted ride. So a multi-million pound investment going in and hopefully that will give us another boost that we need to kick on again. We've still got new accommodation going in. We'll still be doing new events and shows for next year.Josh Haywood: So it's going to be a bumper year for Crealy. Absolutely.  I really look forward to that.Paul Marden: I look forward to you being on the launch ride.Paul Marden: Me down on the ground watching and videoing.Josh Haywood: What they have said, which is really interesting, we spoke to an operator, there's only one other ride like it in the UK, and that operator said, whatever you do, make sure when you put the ride in, you fit a hose pipe and a tap right in. Because you may be washing the seats down more than you would usually on your current ride. So, yeah, it certainly will add that next level of ride experience to our family market.Paul Marden: Yeah, I think that's super important, isn't it? Mr. Povey, what have you seen today that has blown your socks off?Andy Povey: I'm really looking for the place to go and get some more soft, comfortable socks. I've walked so much. I've stood around and listened to so many fantastic talks, had so many brilliant conversations. I'm done. My feet hurt. I need to sit down and have a beer.Paul Marden: Well, I hate to break it to you, but there's another day left. And there's still more interviews to do. Still more opportunities for us to get some interesting stories on Skip the Queue.Andy Povey: Look forward to that.Paul Marden: Gentlemen, I think we're about done. So thank you ever so much. It has been a joy. And Mr. Povey, see you back here tomorrow. Josh, wonderful as always.Josh Haywood: Maybe see you at OrlandoPaul Marden: Oh. Absolutely, yeah.Josh Haywood: We'll do it againPaul Marden: Thanks for listening to today's episode. If you liked it, leave a comment in Spotify or Apple Podcasts. If you didn't, let us know on hello@skipthequeue.fm. Today's episode was a team effort for Sami and Emily from Plaster, Steve from Folland Co., as well as Claire and Wenalyn from Skip the Queue HQ. We're back again tomorrow for more fun from IAAPA, including Andreas Andersen from Liseberg, one of Scandinavia's most visited parks. See you all tomorrow. The 2025 Visitor Attraction Website Survey is now LIVE! Dive into groundbreaking benchmarks for the industryGain a better understanding of how to achieve the highest conversion ratesExplore the "why" behind visitor attraction site performanceLearn the impact of website optimisation and visitor engagement on conversion ratesUncover key steps to enhance user experience for greater conversionsTake the Rubber Cheese Visitor Attraction Website Survey Report

Le secteur du luxe, souvent considéré comme une valeur refuge, connaît aujourd'hui une phase d'incertitude rare, qui en fait un placement risqué à court terme. Selon une étude du cabinet Bain & Company, réalisée avec la Fondation Altagamma, l'année 2025 pourrait marquer l'une des pires turbulences que le secteur ait connues depuis la crise de 2008.1. Un contexte géopolitique et économique tenduL'étude souligne que les ventes de produits de luxe sont très sensibles aux incertitudes. Or, 2025 débute dans un climat tendu : conflits armés, tensions commerciales, instabilité des monnaies, et volatilité des marchés boursiers. Résultat : la confiance des consommateurs se fragilise. Les acheteurs fortunés, même s'ils ont les moyens, adoptent une attitude plus prudente face à l'incertitude, ce qui pèse directement sur les ventes.2. La Chine et les États-Unis en ralentissementLes deux marchés phares du luxe mondial — la Chine et les États-Unis — montrent des signes d'essoufflement. Aux États-Unis, ce sont surtout les fluctuations tarifaires et la crainte d'un ralentissement économique qui freinent les dépenses. En Chine, l'attitude attentiste de la classe moyenne supérieure, autrefois moteur de la croissance, est liée à un climat d'anxiété économique interne et au durcissement du contexte immobilier.3. Un retour à la normale après l'euphorie post-CovidJoëlle de Montgolfier, directrice du pôle luxe chez Bain, rappelle que la forte croissance observée après le Covid n'était pas durable. Le marché est aujourd'hui en phase de normalisation : après un chiffre record de 1.478 milliards d'euros en 2024, les ventes d'articles de luxe personnels (mode, maroquinerie, joaillerie…) pourraient reculer de 2 à 5 % en 2025. Dans le scénario le plus pessimiste, la baisse pourrait atteindre jusqu'à 9 %.4. Une perspective à long terme toujours solideMalgré tout, les experts ne parlent pas d'un effondrement, mais d'un recalibrage. Le marché reste globalement sain, et l'appétit pour le luxe demeure fort à l'échelle mondiale. Mais pour les investisseurs, cette période de transition est délicate. Les entreprises du secteur (comme LVMH, Kering ou Richemont) voient leur valorisation chahutée en bourse, du fait de perspectives de croissance temporairement dégradées. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Honores para el autogiro De la Cierva. Ingeniería para vencer a la gravedad.El deseo de poder volar ha llevado a miles de personas a agudizar su ingenio buscando la forma de vencer a la gravedad. Desde los prototipos de Leonardo Da Vinci (siglo XV) de máquinas voladoras que no tuvieron una aplicación práctica, se pasaron a éxitos como el globo aerostático de los hermanos Montgolfier (1783) que supuso el primer vuelo tripulado y, posteriormente, al uso de planeadores en el siglo XIX (Otto Lilienthal, 1890) superando el reto de hacer que aeronaves más pesadas que el aire se mantuviesen en vuelo. No será hasta 1903, el 17 de diciembre, que los hermanos Orville y Wilbur Wright realicen el primer vuelo controlado de un avión motorizado (Carolina del Norte, EEUU).¿Qué importancia tiene la Región de Murcia en este contexto? Pues dentro de una relevante familia, el joven con talento Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, entraría en la Historia Mundial de la Aviación con sus diseños y prototipos del autogiro, que permitieron un vuelo más seguro al disponer de alas giratorias.Aunque está bastante generalizado el hecho de hablar del autogiro como un precursor del helicóptero, lo cierto es que son ingenios diferentes con particularidades únicas que resaltan aún más la singularidad de este invento, donde la imitación de las formas de la naturaleza (samaras del arce) y el compromiso para poder revertir riesgos de estabilidad y seguridad llevaron a sus nuevos diseños, hasta desarrollar cerca de una treintena de prototipos.

Todos hemos tomado en alguna ocasión un avión, algunos lo hacen incluso varias veces al mes. En nuestro mundo más de 12 millones de personas vuelan diariamente en alguno de los 100.000 vuelos comerciales que cada día del año las aerolíneas programan de forma regular. Volar nos parece de lo más normal, pero es algo relativamente reciente. Los seres humanos no consiguieron despegarse del suelo hasta finales del siglo XVIII, primero en globos como el de los hermanos Montgolfier en 1783, luego en dirigibles y más tarde, ya en el siglo XX, en aeroplanos de ala fija más pesadas que el aire. Este último invento se lo debemos a los hermanos Wright, que en 1903 hicieron el primer vuelo en una playa de Carolina del Norte. A partir de ahí el aeroplano fue mejorando paulatinamente y durante décadas convivió con los dirigibles, que tuvieron una vida larga en países como Alemania. La primera aerolínea de la historia voló, de hecho, dirigibles, no aviones y lo hizo tan pronto como en 1909. Pero los dirigibles eran lentos, voluminosos y su operación implicaba riesgos, de modo que los aviones pronto tomaron la delantera. La primera guerra mundial propulsó la innovación y la producción de aeronaves de combate que, una vez firmada la paz, siguieron su desarrollo, pero ya como aviones comerciales. Fue entonces, en 1919, cuando el convenio de París reguló la aviación civil y nacieron las primeras aerolíneas, algunas de las cuales siguen existiendo un siglo después como la holandesa KLM, la australiana Qantas, la alemana Lufthansa o la española Iberia. Los años 20 y 30 fueron un periodo dorado que sirvió de antesala a la segunda guerra mundial, en la que la aviación tuvo un papel mucho más importante que en la anterior. Los aviones eran potentes, rápidos y ya de gran tamaño. La innovación no se detuvo, fue en esta época cuando aparecieron los primeros aparatos presurizados, los motores a reacción y brillaron los grandes hidroaviones. Antes de terminar el conflicto la convención de Chicago estableció normas para todos y creo la OACI, siglas de Organización de Aviación Civil Internacional. La posguerra asistió al surgimiento de grandes cuatrimotores para pasajeros como el Lockheed Super Constellation y el Douglas DC-7, que desplazaron definitivamente a los hidroaviones. Sería en 1952 en el Reino Unido donde se presentase el primer jet comercial, el De Havilland Comet, que tuvo una vida corta y accidentada. Le sucedería el Boeing 707 en 1958, un avión que revolucionó la aviación comercial gracias a su diseño, capacidad y, especialmente, su velocidad ya que podía mantener cruceros de más de 900 kilómetros por hora. Los años 60 y 70 trajeron la competición supersónica entre el Concorde franco-británico y el Tupolev 144 soviético. El segundo no pasó de unos pocos vuelos, el primero tuvo una vida de casi tres décadas, pero sus costes de operación eran demasiado elevados. En paralelo, los ingenieros de Boeing desarrollaron el 747, también conocido como Jumbo por sus descomunales dimensiones, el primer avión de fuselaje ancho de la historia. McDonnell Douglas respondió con un trimotor, el DC-10, y los europeos de Airbus con el A-300, el primer avión bimotor de fuselaje ancho, algo muy bien recibido por las aerolíneas tras la crisis del petróleo. La desregulación aérea en EEUU y los cielos abiertos en Europa transformaron el mercado, permitiendo a cientos de millones de personas volar de forma rutinaria gracias a la aparición de compañías de bajo coste como Southwest y Ryanair. La normativa ETOPS permitió a los bimotores operar rutas transoceánicas, sacando del mercado a los cuatrimotores. Alianzas como Star Alliance o One World optimizaron recursos, mientras que aviones como el Boeing 787 Dreamliner o el Airbus A350 introdujeron materiales compuestos para mejorar la eficiencia. La industria aérea nunca ha dejado de innovar y lo sigue haciendo. Se investiga activamente en aviones de propulsión eléctrica y nuevos modelos supersónicos que sean económicamente viables. Para hablar de una historia tan presente tenemos hoy en La ContraHistoria a Iker Muro, piloto comercial, contraescucha y, sobre todo, un amante de la aviación. Bibliografía: - "Wings: A History of Aviation" de Tom D. Crouch - https://amzn.to/4cRMGb4 - "100 Years of Civil Aviation" de Ben Skipper - https://amzn.to/3RyZuJK - "Commercial Aviation History" de Saeed Nassar - https://amzn.to/42qtgqe - "Eso no estaba en mi libro de historia de la aviación" de Rafael de Madariaga y Adolfo Roldán - https://amzn.to/44EvdAI · Canal de Telegram: https://t.me/lacontracronica · “Contra la Revolución Francesa”… https://amzn.to/4aF0LpZ · “Hispanos. Breve historia de los pueblos de habla hispana”… https://amzn.to/428js1G · “La ContraHistoria de España. 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Cyril Lignac célèbre l'amour avec un dessert pour deux, un dessert préparé avec amour : un soufflé au chocolat. Alors le soufflé, c'est vraiment un plat emblématique de la cuisine française. En gros c'est un plat qui gonfle avec la chaleur quand on le met au four. C'est l'air chaud qui le fait gonfler. D'ailleurs, petite anecdote : la légende raconte que c'est en mangeant un soufflé dans le restaurant du chef Antoine Beauvilliers au 18e siècle, que les frères Montgolfier ont eu l'idée de créer la Montgolfière.

El antiguo sueño humano de viajar por el aire se hizo realidad en 1783, gracias a los globos de aire caliente y de hidrógeno inventados por los hermanos Montgolfier y por Charles y Robert.

Achtung, die Folgenbeschreibung muss ganz schnell gelesen werden, denn die Studienräte haben heute eigentlich gar keine Zeit, weil sie heute mal wieder Pädagogischen Tag in der Schule haben und deswegen einander zwar in der Schule gegenübersitzen, aber gleich wieder zurück zu ihrem Workshop müssen, was sie aber nicht davon abhält, nochmal kurz eine Folge aufzunehmen, die deshalb vielleicht ein bisschen hallt, aber so ist das nunmal. *Luft holen* Martin, der mittlerweile den Blaugurt in Warhammer hat, ist gegen seinen Protegé angetreten, doch wie dieser Kampf ausgegangen ist, das verrät er in dieser Folge, woraufhin er außerdem erwähnt, dass er in "Venom 3" im Kino war, der so mittelgut war. *Luft holen* Alex erzählt leicht verschnupft davon, dass er letzte Woche Stockbrot gemacht hat und hat auch noch gleich zwei Lifehacks in petto, wie das besser gelingt und besser schmeckt, woraufhin er in der Hausaufgabe erklärt, welche Musik ihm besonders gut gefällt und eine Band vorstellt, die schon viel zu lange aufgeschoben worden ist. *Luft holen* In der bei Speedy Gonzales Folgen Tradition gewordenen mündlichen Prüfung gibt es mal wieder ein Allgemeinwissensquiz zwischen Martin und Alex und die Frage, ob Alex seinen Titel verteidigt oder Martin diesmal als Quizkönig aus dem Wettbewerb hervorgeht. *Luft holen und kurz innehalten* Abschließend sei noch auf eine ganz besondere Veranstaltung hingewiesen, am Wochenende, also dem 22.-24. November findet im Bottroper Filmforum das "Bosnia-Herzegovina Looks Around" Filmfestival statt. Eine Veranstaltung, die vor allem Alex' Vater sehr am Herzen liegt, weshalb natürlich auch an dieser Stelle nochmal darauf hingewiesen werden soll. So von wegen Horizont erweitern und den Blick über den Tellerrand wagen und so. Schaut euch das mal an auf deren Website, deren Instagram Kanal oder geht hin und guckt euch die Filme an. *Jetzt wieder schnell lesen* Ganz zum Schluss, säen die Studienräte noch einen kleinen Gedanken, der auch in euren Köpfen wachsen und gedeihen könnte: Sie planen, die bald anstehende Folge 200 als Live-Folge stattfinden zu lassen. Wenn da auch Bock drauf habt, dann schreibt uns doch mal in die Kommentare oder so, dann würden die Herren mal intensiver in die Planung gehen. *Ausatmen, Ding Dong, Schluss*

Cos'è l'effetto serra? Cosa c'è dopo la troposfera? Tra pionieri dell'aria e scopritori di gas continuiamo il nostro viaggio al centro dell'atmosfera.Formula: PV=nRT conosciuta come equazione di stato dei gas perfetti (dove P è la pressione, V il volume, T la temperatura, n è la quantità di sostanza e R la costante universale dei gas)Viaggio al centro della atmosfera è una serie di 4 video ideata da Curiuss  e prodotta dall'Ass. Culturale Atelier. Scritta e realizzata da Alan Zamboni. Sound design: Matteo d'Alessandro.Brani citati:Nel blu dipinto di blu (D. Modugno)Le traiettorie delle mongolfiere (G. Testa)I due LiocorniSalirò (D. Silvestri)Per sostenerci: https://associazioneatelier.it/Per contatti e preventivi per incontri dal vivo: associazioneatelier@gmail.com

Da anni si sente parlare di cambiamento climatico; la maggior parte dei discorsi ruotano intorno a uno strato di aria che ci avvolge. La sua storia e le sue caratteristiche sono la trama di una serie in tre puntate dal titolo: "Viaggio al centro dell'Atmosfera".Viaggio al centro della atmosfera è una serie di 4 video ideata da Curiuss  e prodotta dall'Ass. Culturale Atelier. Scritta e realizzata da Alan Zamboni.Sound design: Matteo D'Alessandro.Brani citati:Nel blu dipinto di blu (D. Modugno)Salirò (D. Silvestri)Ma le voleva bene (quartetto Cetra)Le traiettorie delle mongolfiere (G. Testa)Per sostenerci: https://associazioneatelier.it/Per contatti: associazioneatelier@gmail.com

Nieves Concostrina habla sobre la hazaña de los hermanos Montgolfier, autores del primer vuelo tripulado en globo.Ya puedes escuchar Polvo eres, exclusivo en Podimo: https://go.podimo.com/es/polvoeres

Nieves Concostrina habla sobre la hazaña de los hermanos Montgolfier, autores del primer vuelo tripulado en globo.Ya puedes escuchar Polvo eres, exclusivo en Podimo: https://go.podimo.com/es/polvoeres

Nieves Concostrina habla sobre la hazaña de los hermanos Montgolfier, autores del primer vuelo tripulado en globo.Ya puedes escuchar Polvo eres, exclusivo en Podimo: https://go.podimo.com/es/polvoeres

Vòng lửa không cháy mà chỉ tỏa sáng, ngọn lửa vàng rực không được tạo ra từ chất đốt hóa thạch mà từ nước và điện tái tạo, đó là « đài lửa bay » độc nhất vô nhị trong lịch sử Olympic nhờ khinh khí cầu. Tỏa hơi nước mờ ảo như làn khói, hai tuần qua, từ sau lễ khai mạc Thế Vận Hội, đài lửa Olympic bập bùng bay lơ lửng trên bầu trời đêm Paris, đã trở thành « ngôi sao mới nổi » thu hút mọi ánh nhìn ở Kinh đô Ánh sáng Paris. Đài lửa Olympic thậm chí được kỳ vọng sẽ trở thành công trình hiện diện lâu dài tại Paris chứ không chỉ trong thời gian ngắn ngủi diễn ra Thế Vận Hội, như tháp Eiffel theo dự kiến ban đầu chỉ được dựng lên tại thủ đô nước Pháp cho Triển lãm Hoàn cầu 1889, nhưng sau hơn 135 năm vẫn sừng sững giữa lòng Paris, là biểu tượng của Paris hoa lệ và là một trong những công trình được thăm quan nhiều nhất thế giới.     Cũng như các tiết mục biểu diễn trong lễ khai mạc Thế Vận Hội, màn rước đuốc và châm vạc lửa Olympic được giữ bí mật đến phút chót. Hình ảnh mãn nhãn về đài lửa lơ lửng trên bầu trời Paris rực rỡ, phía dưới là các công trình biểu tượng đẹp lung linh của Paris đã khép lại chương trình khai mạc Thế Vận Hội. Và ngay sau đó là những ngày thu hút hàng trăm ngàn lượt khách đến chiêm ngưỡng đài lửa - khinh khí cầu tại vườn Thượng Uyển (Tuileries). Cùng với không khí háo hức, sôi nổi mỗi tối ở thủ đô Paris khi hoàng hôn buông xuống, là vô vàn bức ảnh đẹp như trong cổ tích lan truyền trên các kênh truyền thông và mạng xã hội.Vào ban ngày, đài lửa được đặt tại Vườn Tuileries, mỗi hôm cả chục ngàn người đến tham quan. Chỉ trong 48 giờ đầu tiên phân phát vé miễn phí, đã có 100.000 người đăng ký. Nhiều người nói đến hiệu ứng Vasque Olympique (Chảo lửa Thế Vận Hội). Buổi tối khi mặt trời lặn, khinh khí cầu được đưa lên độ cao 60m, cho đến nửa đêm, đung đưa theo gió, phun hơi nước mờ ảo như làn khói mỏng tỏa ra từ ngọn lửa.Kỳ tích công nghệ Pháp Nghe thì đơn giản, nhưng đài lửa Olympic xứng đáng được gọi là một kỳ tích công nghệ mới của Pháp, được lấy cảm hứng từ ngành chế tạo hàng không, bởi phải bảo đảm đồng thời tính thẩm mỹ mà an toàn, nhẹ mà chắc chắn, nhất là khi khinh khí cầu, cao 30m, với bề ngang 22m, được đưa lên độ cao 60m và đung đưa trong gió vài tiếng đồng hồ trong khi hệ thống dẫn điện - nước vẫn phải hoạt động liên tục qua đường dây cáp đặc biệt bằng nhôm nhẹ mà vững chắc, dẫn từ mặt đất lên độ cao 60m.Riêng về vòng lửa, với đường kính 7m, vòng lửa được tạo thành nhờ 40 máy chiếu công suất cực mạnh với độ sáng 4 triệu lumen và 200 vòi phun sương cao áp, do công ty điện lực Pháp EDF và các đối tác chế tạo. Khi đứng yên một chỗ trên mặt đất, vạc lửa tiêu thụ 2m3 nước/giờ, còn khi lên cao thì 3m3 nước/giờ.  Cũng như đuốc Olympic Paris 2024, đài lửa do Mathieu Lehanneur thiết kế. Nhà thiết kế táo bạo này là người sáng lập xưởng thiết kế Factory tại Ivry-sur-Seine, ngoại ô Paris. Trên đài RFI Pháp ngữ, nhà thiết kế Lehanneur giải thích về ý nghĩa của đài lửa :« Điều đầu tiên đến (trong suy nghĩ) là chúng tôi sẽ làm được, bất luận thế nào thì chúng tôi cũng phải làm mọi thứ để đạt được điều đó. Như vậy, chúng tôi đã triển khai mọi việc, cả về mặt kỹ thuật, về vật liệu và về không gian, để tìm ra vị trí thích hợp và công nghệ thích hợp. Chúng tôi đã có thể làm cho chiếc đài lửa trở nên sống động nhờ các ê-kíp của Tập đoàn Điện lực Pháp EDF đã tạo ra được một ngọn lửa mà không cần dùng tới chất đốt. Quả thực, ngọn lửa được tạo ra từ ánh sáng và nước đã cho phép chúng tôi biến ý tưởng về đài lửa bay trở thành hiện thực. Chính điều này đã thực sự cho phép chúng tôi biến những giấc mơ điên rồ nhất thành hiện thực. Ý nghĩa biểu tượng của đài lửa này là ở chỗ càng đông công chúng tiếp cận được thì càng tốt. Vào ban ngày, đài lửa được đặt trên mặt đất tại một nơi công cộng, để tất cả mọi người có thể đến chiêm ngưỡng. Và vào buổi tối, đài lửa sẽ bay lên theo chiều gió, có thể lên đến độ cao 60m để càng nhiều người chiêm ngưỡng thì càng tốt. Như vậy, trên hết đài lửa khiến tâm hồn người xem bay bổng. Đây cũng là cách kể với mọi người về lịch sử các phát minh của Pháp, câu chuyện về anh em nhà Montgolfier (những người đã chế tạo ra khinh khí cầu đầu tiên), các khinh khí cầu, khinh khí cầu vận hành với khí đốt, tức là toàn bộ lộ trình sáng chế của Pháp. Như vậy là đài lửa này cũng được in dấu trong dòng chảy lịch sử này, nhưng theo cách thức mới mẻ ».Ngọn lửa bừng sáng lúc hoàng hônSuốt gần 2 tuần qua, khu vườn nổi tiếng gần sông Seine, cạnh bảo tàng Louvre, trở thành điểm thu hút biết bao du khách, không chỉ du khách trong nước và quốc tế mà ngay cả nhiều người dân Paris cũng háo hức đến đây để được tận mắt ngắm nhìn một « kỳ quan » mới mùa Thế Vận Hội.   Chị Minh Phương, sống tại vùng Paris, cùng với một nhóm bạn người Việt Nam, hôm đầu tuần này cũng đến Vườn Tuileries để chiêm ngưỡng vạc lửa - khinh khí cầu. Đây là lần thứ hai chị đi xem đài lửa. Hào hứng khi thấy khinh khí cầu bắt đầu bay lên, lung linh trên bầu trời đêm Paris, chị Minh Phương chia sẻ với RFI Tiếng Việt :Không xa chỗ chị Phương đứng, ở ngay đầu cầu Pont Royal, bà Emilie Bourdenx và con trai là Mathis Mahongo đang say sưa bàn tán rất sôi nổi về đài lửa. Bà Emilie Bourdenx không tiếc lời khen ngợi :« Đây là lần đầu tiên tôi thấy nó (đài lửa) bay lên vì những lần trước thời tiết xấu. Tôi thấy thật phi thường, rất đẹp. Thật là kỳ diệu ! Đây là một khoảnh khắc kỳ ảo. Quả là tuyệt vời ! Mọi người rất vui khi được đến đây. Bầu không khí ở đây rất thích, mọi người đến từ nhiều quốc gia. Thực sự là rất tuyệt vời ! Công ty điện lực Pháp đã tạo ra ngọn lửa này, nhưng thực ra không hề có lửa cháy, mà ngọn lửa được tạo ra bằng hơi nước và ánh sáng. Nhưng chúng ta có thể nói là nó giống y ngọn lửa thật và tôi nghĩ chính điều đó khiến nó trở nên kỳ ảo ». Anh Mathis Mahongo hào hứng tiếp lời mẹ :« Tôi đã từng trông thấy nó, không phải ngoài đời thực mà là trên truyền hình và trông có vẻ tuyệt vời. Nhưng được chiêm ngưỡng tận mắt thế này thì thực sự là rất đẹp. Và cách (ngọn lửa) được tạo ra với hơi nước cũng được thực hiện rất tốt. Nên tôi thích ngọn lửa như vậy, lửa mà lại không phải lửa thật. Điều này chẳng có gì là không hay. Tôi thậm chí còn thấy rằng hiệu ứng mà nước mang lại còn tốt hơn là từ ngọn lửa thật. Tôi nghĩ rằng tôi thích ngọn lửa được tạo ra từ hơi nước thế này hơn ». Cách đó vài bước chân có hai người phụ nữ trẻ, hiện đang sống tại Paris, đi xem đài lửa cùng nhau. Một người đã từng chiêm ngưỡng, cô vui vẻ chia sẻ cảm xúc ngay trước khi đài lửa bay lên : « Tôi đến đây chiêm ngưỡng đài lửa Olympic cùng với người bạn trọ cùng nhà với tôi. Ngày thứ Bảy, sau hôm xem lễ khai mạc Thế Vận Hội, tôi đã đến đây và tôi thấy (đài lửa) rất đẹp. Mọi người đến xem mà không cần phải mua vé, tôi thấy là rất tuyệt. Có thể nói là khá độc đáo và hầu như đứng chỗ nào ở Paris cũng có thể ngắm được, như trên đồi Montmartre chẳng hạn. Điều này mang lại không khí hào hứng trong suốt mùa Thế Vận Hội ». Bạn cô thì nói : « Sẽ thật tuyệt nếu đài lửa được duy trì ở đây. Tại sao lại không nhỉ ? Nó thực sự rất đẹp. Hiện tại tôi chưa có cơ hội ngắm. Tôi đang chờ xem đây. Có đông người, trời đang là mùa hè, thời tiết đẹp, đài lửa đưa người mọi người đến đây, tạo ra một bầu không khí hào hứng, sôi nổi. Chúng tôi đánh giá cao điều đó ».  Biểu tượng mới của Paris ?Truyền thông Pháp thậm chí đặt câu hỏi về khả năng đài lửa bay liệu có trở thành một biểu tượng mới của Paris, thậm chí liệu có thể soán ngôi biểu tượng tháp Eiffel của Paris hay không. Về điều này, có nhiều ý kiến trái chiều. Những chia sẻ của các du khách mà RFI Tiếng Việt phỏng vấn cũng cho thấy điều đó. Chị Minh Phương bày tỏ :Bà Emilie Bourdenx và con trai là Mathis Mahongo : « Ồ! Tôi không rõ, chúng tôi không phải người Paris nên tôi không biết, nhưng đúng là điều đó có thể sẽ rất thú vị. Nhưng thường thì sau Olympic thì người ta sẽ tắt lửa. Có thể là đây chỉ là khoảnh khắc kỳ diệu ngắn ngủi, trong vài ngày thôi. Nó sẽ không thể soán ngôi tháp Eiffel được. Tháp Eiffel ở ngay kia kìa. Mọi người vẫn thấy tháp Eiffel sáng lấp lánh ngay cả khi đài lửa bay lên. Tháp Eiffel sẽ không thể bị soán ngôi đâu, nó hùng vĩ thế kia cơ mà » ; « Tôi nghĩ rằng biểu tượng của Paris sẽ luôn là tháp Eiffel. Đài lửa thì tôi không chắc là sẽ được như vậy. Tôi nghĩ là nó sẽ chỉ thoáng qua. Đó sẽ là một khoảnh khắc kỳ diệu trong lịch sử Paris, nhưng sẽ chỉ là tức thời, là một hiệu ứng thoáng qua ».Sự thành công ngoài sức tưởng tượng của đài lửa Olympic ngay từ khi ra mắt tại lễ khai mạc Thế Vận Hội đã khiến đô trưởng Paris, Anne Hidalgo, đã viết thư gửi tổng thống Pháp Emmanuel Macron để đề nghị giữ lại đài lửa ở vườn Tuileries sau khi Olympic kết thúc. Do đây là khu vườn thuộc quản lý của Nhà nước nên chính quyền thành phố không thể tự quyết.Vườn Tuileries cũng chính là nơi cách nay gần 2 thế kỷ rưỡi khinh khí cầu vận hành bằng nhiên liệu hóa thạch, do anh em nhà Montgolfier chế tạo, trở thành phương tiện « biết bay » đầu tiên của nhân loại. Hơn nữa, đây cũng là một điểm nằm trên trục thẳng nối những điểm biểu tượng của Paris, từ Kim tự tháp kính ở sân bảo tàng Louvre, cột đá Ai Cập obélisque có từ thế kỷ 13 trước công nguyên tại quảng trường Concorde, Khải Hoàn Môn, cho đến La Défense, trung tâm văn phòng, tài chính lớn nhất châu Âu, đặt tại ngoại ô Paris.  Theo Le Figaro ngày 02/08, tổng thống Macron đã đề nghị chính phủ phối hợp với Công ty điện lực Pháp, chính quyền thành phố Paris và các cơ quan có liên quan nghiên cứu về khả năng duy trì lâu dài đài lửa Olympic tại Paris.

Vòng lửa không cháy mà chỉ tỏa sáng, ngọn lửa vàng rực không được tạo ra từ chất đốt hóa thạch mà từ nước và điện tái tạo, đó là « đài lửa bay » độc nhất vô nhị trong lịch sử Olympic nhờ khinh khí cầu. Tỏa hơi nước mờ ảo như làn khói, hai tuần qua, từ sau lễ khai mạc Thế Vận Hội, đài lửa Olympic bập bùng bay lơ lửng trên bầu trời đêm Paris, đã trở thành « ngôi sao mới nổi » thu hút mọi ánh nhìn ở Kinh đô Ánh sáng Paris. Đài lửa Olympic thậm chí được kỳ vọng sẽ trở thành công trình hiện diện lâu dài tại Paris chứ không chỉ trong thời gian ngắn ngủi diễn ra Thế Vận Hội, như tháp Eiffel theo dự kiến ban đầu chỉ được dựng lên tại thủ đô nước Pháp cho Triển lãm Hoàn cầu 1889, nhưng sau hơn 135 năm vẫn sừng sững giữa lòng Paris, là biểu tượng của Paris hoa lệ và là một trong những công trình được thăm quan nhiều nhất thế giới.     Cũng như các tiết mục biểu diễn trong lễ khai mạc Thế Vận Hội, màn rước đuốc và châm vạc lửa Olympic được giữ bí mật đến phút chót. Hình ảnh mãn nhãn về đài lửa lơ lửng trên bầu trời Paris rực rỡ, phía dưới là các công trình biểu tượng đẹp lung linh của Paris đã khép lại chương trình khai mạc Thế Vận Hội. Và ngay sau đó là những ngày thu hút hàng trăm ngàn lượt khách đến chiêm ngưỡng đài lửa - khinh khí cầu tại vườn Thượng Uyển (Tuileries). Cùng với không khí háo hức, sôi nổi mỗi tối ở thủ đô Paris khi hoàng hôn buông xuống, là vô vàn bức ảnh đẹp như trong cổ tích lan truyền trên các kênh truyền thông và mạng xã hội.Vào ban ngày, đài lửa được đặt tại Vườn Tuileries, mỗi hôm cả chục ngàn người đến tham quan. Chỉ trong 48 giờ đầu tiên phân phát vé miễn phí, đã có 100.000 người đăng ký. Nhiều người nói đến hiệu ứng Vasque Olympique (Chảo lửa Thế Vận Hội). Buổi tối khi mặt trời lặn, khinh khí cầu được đưa lên độ cao 60m, cho đến nửa đêm, đung đưa theo gió, phun hơi nước mờ ảo như làn khói mỏng tỏa ra từ ngọn lửa.Kỳ tích công nghệ Pháp Nghe thì đơn giản, nhưng đài lửa Olympic xứng đáng được gọi là một kỳ tích công nghệ mới của Pháp, được lấy cảm hứng từ ngành chế tạo hàng không, bởi phải bảo đảm đồng thời tính thẩm mỹ mà an toàn, nhẹ mà chắc chắn, nhất là khi khinh khí cầu, cao 30m, với bề ngang 22m, được đưa lên độ cao 60m và đung đưa trong gió vài tiếng đồng hồ trong khi hệ thống dẫn điện - nước vẫn phải hoạt động liên tục qua đường dây cáp đặc biệt bằng nhôm nhẹ mà vững chắc, dẫn từ mặt đất lên độ cao 60m.Riêng về vòng lửa, với đường kính 7m, vòng lửa được tạo thành nhờ 40 máy chiếu công suất cực mạnh với độ sáng 4 triệu lumen và 200 vòi phun sương cao áp, do công ty điện lực Pháp EDF và các đối tác chế tạo. Khi đứng yên một chỗ trên mặt đất, vạc lửa tiêu thụ 2m3 nước/giờ, còn khi lên cao thì 3m3 nước/giờ.  Cũng như đuốc Olympic Paris 2024, đài lửa do Mathieu Lehanneur thiết kế. Nhà thiết kế táo bạo này là người sáng lập xưởng thiết kế Factory tại Ivry-sur-Seine, ngoại ô Paris. Trên đài RFI Pháp ngữ, nhà thiết kế Lehanneur giải thích về ý nghĩa của đài lửa :« Điều đầu tiên đến (trong suy nghĩ) là chúng tôi sẽ làm được, bất luận thế nào thì chúng tôi cũng phải làm mọi thứ để đạt được điều đó. Như vậy, chúng tôi đã triển khai mọi việc, cả về mặt kỹ thuật, về vật liệu và về không gian, để tìm ra vị trí thích hợp và công nghệ thích hợp. Chúng tôi đã có thể làm cho chiếc đài lửa trở nên sống động nhờ các ê-kíp của Tập đoàn Điện lực Pháp EDF đã tạo ra được một ngọn lửa mà không cần dùng tới chất đốt. Quả thực, ngọn lửa được tạo ra từ ánh sáng và nước đã cho phép chúng tôi biến ý tưởng về đài lửa bay trở thành hiện thực. Chính điều này đã thực sự cho phép chúng tôi biến những giấc mơ điên rồ nhất thành hiện thực. Ý nghĩa biểu tượng của đài lửa này là ở chỗ càng đông công chúng tiếp cận được thì càng tốt. Vào ban ngày, đài lửa được đặt trên mặt đất tại một nơi công cộng, để tất cả mọi người có thể đến chiêm ngưỡng. Và vào buổi tối, đài lửa sẽ bay lên theo chiều gió, có thể lên đến độ cao 60m để càng nhiều người chiêm ngưỡng thì càng tốt. Như vậy, trên hết đài lửa khiến tâm hồn người xem bay bổng. Đây cũng là cách kể với mọi người về lịch sử các phát minh của Pháp, câu chuyện về anh em nhà Montgolfier (những người đã chế tạo ra khinh khí cầu đầu tiên), các khinh khí cầu, khinh khí cầu vận hành với khí đốt, tức là toàn bộ lộ trình sáng chế của Pháp. Như vậy là đài lửa này cũng được in dấu trong dòng chảy lịch sử này, nhưng theo cách thức mới mẻ ».Ngọn lửa bừng sáng lúc hoàng hônSuốt gần 2 tuần qua, khu vườn nổi tiếng gần sông Seine, cạnh bảo tàng Louvre, trở thành điểm thu hút biết bao du khách, không chỉ du khách trong nước và quốc tế mà ngay cả nhiều người dân Paris cũng háo hức đến đây để được tận mắt ngắm nhìn một « kỳ quan » mới mùa Thế Vận Hội.   Chị Minh Phương, sống tại vùng Paris, cùng với một nhóm bạn người Việt Nam, hôm đầu tuần này cũng đến Vườn Tuileries để chiêm ngưỡng vạc lửa - khinh khí cầu. Đây là lần thứ hai chị đi xem đài lửa. Hào hứng khi thấy khinh khí cầu bắt đầu bay lên, lung linh trên bầu trời đêm Paris, chị Minh Phương chia sẻ với RFI Tiếng Việt :Không xa chỗ chị Phương đứng, ở ngay đầu cầu Pont Royal, bà Emilie Bourdenx và con trai là Mathis Mahongo đang say sưa bàn tán rất sôi nổi về đài lửa. Bà Emilie Bourdenx không tiếc lời khen ngợi :« Đây là lần đầu tiên tôi thấy nó (đài lửa) bay lên vì những lần trước thời tiết xấu. Tôi thấy thật phi thường, rất đẹp. Thật là kỳ diệu ! Đây là một khoảnh khắc kỳ ảo. Quả là tuyệt vời ! Mọi người rất vui khi được đến đây. Bầu không khí ở đây rất thích, mọi người đến từ nhiều quốc gia. Thực sự là rất tuyệt vời ! Công ty điện lực Pháp đã tạo ra ngọn lửa này, nhưng thực ra không hề có lửa cháy, mà ngọn lửa được tạo ra bằng hơi nước và ánh sáng. Nhưng chúng ta có thể nói là nó giống y ngọn lửa thật và tôi nghĩ chính điều đó khiến nó trở nên kỳ ảo ». Anh Mathis Mahongo hào hứng tiếp lời mẹ :« Tôi đã từng trông thấy nó, không phải ngoài đời thực mà là trên truyền hình và trông có vẻ tuyệt vời. Nhưng được chiêm ngưỡng tận mắt thế này thì thực sự là rất đẹp. Và cách (ngọn lửa) được tạo ra với hơi nước cũng được thực hiện rất tốt. Nên tôi thích ngọn lửa như vậy, lửa mà lại không phải lửa thật. Điều này chẳng có gì là không hay. Tôi thậm chí còn thấy rằng hiệu ứng mà nước mang lại còn tốt hơn là từ ngọn lửa thật. Tôi nghĩ rằng tôi thích ngọn lửa được tạo ra từ hơi nước thế này hơn ». Cách đó vài bước chân có hai người phụ nữ trẻ, hiện đang sống tại Paris, đi xem đài lửa cùng nhau. Một người đã từng chiêm ngưỡng, cô vui vẻ chia sẻ cảm xúc ngay trước khi đài lửa bay lên : « Tôi đến đây chiêm ngưỡng đài lửa Olympic cùng với người bạn trọ cùng nhà với tôi. Ngày thứ Bảy, sau hôm xem lễ khai mạc Thế Vận Hội, tôi đã đến đây và tôi thấy (đài lửa) rất đẹp. Mọi người đến xem mà không cần phải mua vé, tôi thấy là rất tuyệt. Có thể nói là khá độc đáo và hầu như đứng chỗ nào ở Paris cũng có thể ngắm được, như trên đồi Montmartre chẳng hạn. Điều này mang lại không khí hào hứng trong suốt mùa Thế Vận Hội ». Bạn cô thì nói : « Sẽ thật tuyệt nếu đài lửa được duy trì ở đây. Tại sao lại không nhỉ ? Nó thực sự rất đẹp. Hiện tại tôi chưa có cơ hội ngắm. Tôi đang chờ xem đây. Có đông người, trời đang là mùa hè, thời tiết đẹp, đài lửa đưa người mọi người đến đây, tạo ra một bầu không khí hào hứng, sôi nổi. Chúng tôi đánh giá cao điều đó ».  Biểu tượng mới của Paris ?Truyền thông Pháp thậm chí đặt câu hỏi về khả năng đài lửa bay liệu có trở thành một biểu tượng mới của Paris, thậm chí liệu có thể soán ngôi biểu tượng tháp Eiffel của Paris hay không. Về điều này, có nhiều ý kiến trái chiều. Những chia sẻ của các du khách mà RFI Tiếng Việt phỏng vấn cũng cho thấy điều đó. Chị Minh Phương bày tỏ :Bà Emilie Bourdenx và con trai là Mathis Mahongo : « Ồ! Tôi không rõ, chúng tôi không phải người Paris nên tôi không biết, nhưng đúng là điều đó có thể sẽ rất thú vị. Nhưng thường thì sau Olympic thì người ta sẽ tắt lửa. Có thể là đây chỉ là khoảnh khắc kỳ diệu ngắn ngủi, trong vài ngày thôi. Nó sẽ không thể soán ngôi tháp Eiffel được. Tháp Eiffel ở ngay kia kìa. Mọi người vẫn thấy tháp Eiffel sáng lấp lánh ngay cả khi đài lửa bay lên. Tháp Eiffel sẽ không thể bị soán ngôi đâu, nó hùng vĩ thế kia cơ mà » ; « Tôi nghĩ rằng biểu tượng của Paris sẽ luôn là tháp Eiffel. Đài lửa thì tôi không chắc là sẽ được như vậy. Tôi nghĩ là nó sẽ chỉ thoáng qua. Đó sẽ là một khoảnh khắc kỳ diệu trong lịch sử Paris, nhưng sẽ chỉ là tức thời, là một hiệu ứng thoáng qua ».Sự thành công ngoài sức tưởng tượng của đài lửa Olympic ngay từ khi ra mắt tại lễ khai mạc Thế Vận Hội đã khiến đô trưởng Paris, Anne Hidalgo, đã viết thư gửi tổng thống Pháp Emmanuel Macron để đề nghị giữ lại đài lửa ở vườn Tuileries sau khi Olympic kết thúc. Do đây là khu vườn thuộc quản lý của Nhà nước nên chính quyền thành phố không thể tự quyết.Vườn Tuileries cũng chính là nơi cách nay gần 2 thế kỷ rưỡi khinh khí cầu vận hành bằng nhiên liệu hóa thạch, do anh em nhà Montgolfier chế tạo, trở thành phương tiện « biết bay » đầu tiên của nhân loại. Hơn nữa, đây cũng là một điểm nằm trên trục thẳng nối những điểm biểu tượng của Paris, từ Kim tự tháp kính ở sân bảo tàng Louvre, cột đá Ai Cập obélisque có từ thế kỷ 13 trước công nguyên tại quảng trường Concorde, Khải Hoàn Môn, cho đến La Défense, trung tâm văn phòng, tài chính lớn nhất châu Âu, đặt tại ngoại ô Paris.  Theo Le Figaro ngày 02/08, tổng thống Macron đã đề nghị chính phủ phối hợp với Công ty điện lực Pháp, chính quyền thành phố Paris và các cơ quan có liên quan nghiên cứu về khả năng duy trì lâu dài đài lửa Olympic tại Paris.

Die Erfinder des Heissluftballons sind 1783 die Gebrüder Montgolfier aus Frankreich. Sie sind die ersten, die Menschen in den Himmel heben – ein riesiges Ereignis. So gross die Euphorie zu Beginn doch ist, so tief ist danach der Fall: Der Heissluftballon bekommt direkt Konkurrenz und wird vom Gasballon verdrängt. In der Folge stellen die Gasballone Weltrekorde auf und helfen die Atmosphäre zu erforschen. Doch vor rund sechzig Jahren erobert sich der Heissluftballon seinen Platz am Ballon-Himmel zurück und wird technisch immer raffinierter. Ein Pilot, der mit einem ganz speziellen Ballon unterwegs ist, ist Stefan Wälchli. Gemeinsam heben wir ab, zu einer Reise durch die Geschichte dieser luftigen Gefährte. Sommerserie der SRF-Wissenschaftsredaktion, Folge 4/7 https://www.srf.ch/wissenschaftsmagazin

Die Erfinder des Heissluftballons sind 1783 die Gebrüder Montgolfier aus Frankreich. Sie sind die ersten, die Menschen in den Himmel heben – ein riesiges Ereignis. So gross die Euphorie zu Beginn doch ist, so tief ist danach der Fall: Der Heissluftballon bekommt direkt Konkurrenz und wird vom Gasballon verdrängt. In der Folge stellen die Gasballone Weltrekorde auf und helfen die Atmosphäre zu erforschen. Doch vor rund sechzig Jahren erobert sich der Heissluftballon seinen Platz am Himmel zurück und wird technisch immer raffinierter. Ballone – wir heben ab zu einer Reise durch die Geschichte dieser luftigen Gefährte. «Heiss»: Sommerserie der SRF-Wissenschaftsredaktion, Folge 4/7. (Diese Folge wurde übernommen aus dem Podcast-Feed «SRF Wissenschaftsmagazin», der ebenfalls von der SRF-Wissenschaftsredaktion produziert wird.)

L'homme rêve de voler depuis des milliers d'années. Mais ce n'est seulement que depuis à peine plus de deux siècles, après de multiples errements, qu'il parvient enfin à s'élever dans les airs. Jules Duhem (1888-1964) retrace ce long cheminement poétique, philosophique et scientifique dans son « Histoire des idées aéronautiques avant Montgolfier », une somme considérable qui lui valut d'être reconnu comme l'un des meilleurs spécialistes en ce domaine.Gérard Maoui en lit un extrait.Commander en ligne : Histoire des Idees Aeronautiques Avnt MontgolfierHébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Area/TopicSouth Africa, Hot Air BallooningDale de KlerkCEOBill Harrop's Original Balloon SafarisDale de Klerk is a passionate aviator! Having developed an interest in aviation at the age of 7 he has not stopped learning, embracing new opportunities and …becoming fully involved in all aspects of aviation from hang gliding, microlights, gliders, power flying, paragliding and holding ratings for over 140 types of aircraft it was merely a matter of time before he found himself in a hot air balloon! Dale's passion for flying led him to build, develop and grow his successful flying school Alpi Aviation. When the opportunity as CEO arose in Bill Harrop's “Original” Balloon Safaris, he knew that this was his next adventure in aviation. He stepped up right away with passion and excitement and, as was predicted by all who knew him, he immediately committed to start gaining his hot air balloon licence!In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with “the best thing that ever happened to him”, his lovely wife Maggie! Together they have travelled to all corners of the globe, including North America, Europe and Africa.His 3 greatest aspirations are to fill Bill's shoes as best he can and continue to make the company a huge success, to provide an unforgettable experience to all of our passengers and guests, and to obtain his hot air balloon pilot's license.https://balloon.co.za/SummaryDale de Klerk, from Bill Harrop's Original Balloon Safaris, shares his journey in aviation and how he got involved in ballooning. He grew up with a passion for flying, starting with model airplanes and hang gliding. Eventually, he became a glider pilot, flew in the Air Force, and became a fixed-wing pilot and instructor. After the owner of Bill Harrop's Original Balloon Safaris passed away, Dale and his wife took over the company. They now have a team of experienced balloon pilots and offer balloon rides in South Africa. The conversation also touches on the history of ballooning and the tradition of serving champagne after a balloon flight. Bill Harrop's Original Balloon Safaris is the first commercial balloon operation in Africa and possibly the southern hemisphere. They offer balloon flights in the Machaliz Valley, which is known for its beautiful landscapes and wildlife. The company caters to both local South Africans and foreign tourists, with a focus on adventure seekers. They have a range of balloon sizes to accommodate different group sizes and weight limits. Safety is a top priority, and flights may be canceled if weather conditions are not suitable. Passengers are encouraged to arrive early to witness the balloon inflation process and feel more at ease. Ballooning in South Africa offers a unique and breathtaking experience.TakeawaysDale de Klerk grew up with a passion for flying and pursued various aviation activities, including model airplanes, hang gliding, glider piloting, and fixed-wing flying.After the owner of Bill Harrop's Original Balloon Safaris passed away, Dale and his wife took over the company and now offer balloon rides in South Africa.To fly commercially in a hot air balloon, pilots need to obtain a hot air balloon private pilot license and accumulate a minimum of 100 hours of piloting command.Ballooning requires monitoring weather conditions and wind currents to navigate, as balloons cannot be steered directly.The tradition of serving champagne after a balloon flight originated with the Montgolfier brothers, who used it as a gesture of goodwill when landing in f Learn more about the Big World Made Small Podcast and join our private community to get episode updates, special access to our guests, and exclusive adventure travel offers at bigworldmadesmall.com.

Ce vendredi 16 février, Erwan Morice a reçu Laëtitia de Montgolfier, directrice exécutive ressources humaines de Lidl, Caroline Montaigne, rédactrice en chef adjointe chez Harvard Business Review, Cécile Dejoux, conférencière, auteur, professeur des universités au Cnam et affiliée ESCP, et Nicolas Lepercq, responsable R&D d'Ignition Program. Ils sont revenus sur la nouvelle manière originale de recruter des salariés autour d'un match de handball, l'impact de l'IA sur le monde du travail, et le lancement de Scan RH, un nouvel outil RH, dans l'émission Happy Boulot sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission le vendredi et réécoutez la en podcast.

Mi-décembre, le Vatican a autorisé dans un document officiel la bénédiction des couples de même sexe et « en situation irrégulière » pour l'Église. Si c'est une première, le texte nommé Fiducia supplicans reste ferme sur son opposition au mariage homosexuel. Depuis sa publication, il suscite de vives réactions notamment en Afrique. Que dit vraiment ce texte, pourquoi fait-il tant réagir et quelles conséquences sur son application ? Avec :- Mgr Jean Bondu, évêque auxiliaire de Rennes- Timothée de Montgolfier, président de l'association Devenir Un En Christ- Jean Marie Guénois, rédacteur en chef chargé des religions au Figaro

Le Vatican a publié, le 18 décembre 2023, une déclaration autorisant la bénédiction religieuse des « couples irréguliers » selon l'Église, en référence aux couples homosexuels et aux divorcés-remariés. Une déclaration accueillie positivement par certains, mais qui a suscité une fronde, notamment sur le continent africain, où l'homosexualité est criminalisée dans de nombreux pays, et reste un sujet clivant. Certains diocèses y compris en Europe ont aussi fait part de leurs interrogations. Depuis, le dicastère pour la Doctrine de la foi a publié en janvier 2024 une explication de texte. Invitée en studio :Céline Béraud, sociologue, directrice d'études à l'ÉHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), spécialiste des questions de genre et sexualité dans le catholicisme, autrice de « Le catholicisme français à l'épreuve des scandales sexuels » (Éd. Seuil, 2021). Intervenants :- Cardinal Désiré Tsarahazana, archevêque de Toamasina (Tamatave) à Madagascar- Mgr Pascal Wintzer, archevêque de Poitiers- Timothée de Montgolfier, président de l'association Devenir Un En Christ- Jean-Michel Dunand, fondateur de la Fraternité Communion Béthanie- Reportage au Bénin / Jean-Luc Aplogan.

Le Vatican a publié, le 18 décembre 2023, une déclaration autorisant la bénédiction religieuse des « couples irréguliers » selon l'Église, en référence aux couples homosexuels et aux divorcés-remariés. Une déclaration accueillie positivement par certains, mais qui a suscité une fronde, notamment sur le continent africain, où l'homosexualité est criminalisée dans de nombreux pays, et reste un sujet clivant. Certains diocèses y compris en Europe ont aussi fait part de leurs interrogations. Depuis, le dicastère pour la Doctrine de la foi a publié en janvier 2024 une explication de texte. Invitée en studio :Céline Béraud, sociologue, directrice d'études à l'ÉHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), spécialiste des questions de genre et sexualité dans le catholicisme, autrice de « Le catholicisme français à l'épreuve des scandales sexuels » (Éd. Seuil, 2021). Intervenants :- Cardinal Désiré Tsarahazana, archevêque de Toamasina (Tamatave) à Madagascar- Mgr Pascal Wintzer, archevêque de Poitiers- Timothée de Montgolfier, président de l'association Devenir Un En Christ- Jean-Michel Dunand, fondateur de la Fraternité Communion Béthanie- Reportage au Bénin / Jean-Luc Aplogan.

It's a NEW YEAR and a NEW ERA for the podcast! So we are kicking off the year the right way by bringing back our friend and yours; Git Em Steve Dave! We cover a bunch of historical firsts in this episode! We talk about William Huskisson, and his daring feat with trains, Mickey Mouse entering public domain, the Montgolfier brothers and the invention of hot air balloons, and Ziv Syndication and the first syndicated TV shows! We also pick the next movies we will be covering, answer listener emails, and introduce some beloved new characters into the world! Please give us a rating and a review on ApplePodcasts or Spotify. It helps potential sponsors find the show! Sign up for @Riversidefm: www.riverside.fm/?via=reviewi... Sign up for @BetterHelp: betterhelp.com/reviewinghistory Email Us: Reviewinghistorypod@gmail.com Follow Us: www.facebook.com/reviewinghistory twitter.com/rviewhistorypod letterboxd.com/antg4836/ letterboxd.com/spfats/ letterboxd.com/BrianRuppert/ letterboxd.com/brianruppert/list…eviewing-history/ twitter.com/Brianruppert #comedy #history #podcast #comedypodcast #historypodcast #tellemstevedave #tesd #trains #british #france #hotairballoon #tv #tvhistory #mickeymouse #steamboatwillie #moviehistory #zivsyndication #disney 00:00 Intro 16:05 Listener Emails 45:47 William Huskisson 52:32 Steamboat Willie 1:01:42 Montgolfier Brothers 1:13:27 Ziv Syndication 1:26:47 Reviewing History Mascot Reveal 1:43:04 Movie Picks

À l'occasion de la Semaine Européenne pour l'Emploi des Personnes Handicapées, Frédéric Cloteaux recevait en direct du supermarché LidL de Livry-Gargan (93), Laëtitia de Montgolfier, directrice exécutive des ressources humaines de LidL France.

Au programme : Invité : Jean François Delfraissy - Président du Comité consultatif national d'éthique • Jean-François Delfraissy : ses vérités sur le Covid • Le grand retour du Covid ? • Jean-François Delfraissy : sa réponse à Agnès Buzyn • Vaccination : quels effets secondaires ? • ARN Messager : le fabuleux destin d'une Prix Nobel En immersion avec Louis Amar - Effets secondaires du vaccin Pfizer : le témoignage de Samia Abdellah Natacha Polony - Si je ne m'abuse • Fin de vie : le grand débat Invité : Éric de Montgolfier - Ancien procureur • L'homme qui a fait tomber Bernard Tapie Matthieu Belliard - La semaine vue par les médias • Punaises de lit : psychose médiatique ? L'hebdo de Tanguy Pastureau

2023. szeptember 19., kedd 6.30-8 óra 1783-ban ezen a napon szállt fel Montgolfier forrólevegős léggömbje, fedélzetén egy tyúkkal, egy kacsával és egy birkával. Lapszemle, tőzsde, Budapest. Egyre több az átverés kápé felvételekor. A jelenségről Lovas Judittal, az Azénpenzem.hu felelős szerkesztőjével beszélgettünk. Simon Gergellyel, a Greenpeace magyarországi vegyianyag-szakértőjével a súlyos problémákat okozhat a biszfenol A vegyi anyagról beszélgettünk, ami sajnos a legtöbb európai lakos vizeletében meghaladja az egészségügyi határértéket.

Pour ce nouvel épisode du podcast Chance, je suis heureuse d'accueillir Laëtitia de Montgolfier, Directrice exécutive RH de Lidl. Femme à haut poste dans un monde encore très masculin, Laetitia a à coeur de donner à toutes et tous les chances de gravir les échelons dans le groupe, quel que soit leurs diplômes.Passionnée par son travail et enthousiasmée par les défis à venir dans le monde de la grande distribution et des ressources humaines, son moteur est d'accompagner un grand nombre de personnes différentes à collaborer au service d'un objectif commun.Pour cela elle nous partage à la fois son expérience, ses motivations, ses doutes et ses conseils concrets pour prendre du recul sur soi et s'épanouir au travail.Vous écoutez Chance, le podcast qui défend l'égalité des chances professionnelles et le droit de se réinventer. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

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"A composition built around the concept of ascension, using a field recording of a hot air balloon ride.  "At each blast of the burner, the balloon rises, and the composition responds by building in a new layer of sound.  "The palette of sounds has been kept to spacious, airy synth pads, open brass notes and a colouring of piano notes and strings to communicate height, space, freedom and to visualise the blues and whites of an open sky dotted with light clouds. "The balloon rises still further, and the pieces builds still further, until both reach the very summit of the heavens, looking down at the Earth below." Luxor hot air balloon ride reimagined by Cities and Memory.

Joseph Montgolfier gilt als Träumer. Deshalb wird er von vielen belächelt, aber er sprudelt nur vor ungewöhnlicher Ideen. Sein Bruder Etienne ist das Gegenteil: diszipliniert, fleißig und bei allen beliebt. Zusammen sind sie ein geniales Team, denn Etienne kann andere für die Ideen von Joseph überzeugen. So bekommen sie die Chance, das erste Flugobjekt zu bauen, das von alleine in die Luft steigt: einen Heißluftballon. Doch kann sich ihr Ballon gegen die Gasballons ihres größten Konkurrenten Charles durchsetzen? Und damit willkommen zu unserem True Science-Podcast! Wir reden über die absurden, irren, romantischen und verworrenen Geschichten hinter Entdeckungen und Erfindungen. Denn in der Wissenschaft gibt es jede Menge Gossip! Wir erzählen zum Beispiel, wie die Erfinderin des heutigen Schwangerschaftstests mit Hilfe einer Büroklammerbox den Durchbruch schaffte, oder wie eine Hollywood-Schauspielerin den Grundstein für unser heutiges WLAN legte. Immer samstags - am Science-Samstag. Wir, das sind Marie Eickhoff und Luisa Pfeiffenschneider. Wir haben Wissenschaftsjournalismus studiert und die Zeit im Labor schon immer lieber zum Quatschen genutzt. Schreibt uns gerne (podcast@behindscience.de)! Wir lieben Feedback, Themenwünsche und nette Grüße. Bei Instagram (behindscience.podcast) versorgen wir euch zwischen den Folgen mit Wissen. Hinweis: Die Werbung in dieser Folge erfolgt automatisiert. Wir haben keinen Einfluss auf die Auswahl. Produktion: Murmel Productions | Marketing/Vermarktung: Julep Media GmbH | Grafikdesign: Mara Strieder | Sprecherin: Madeleine Sabel | Fotos: Fatima Talalini

Balad'EAU célèbre cette année la 3e édition du défi 1000 Gestes pour la nature, avec le magazine les Explorateurs et la Mission 1000 Tonnes.  Je suis la cheffe scientifique de la mission 1000 tonnes, et porte-parole de 1000 Gestes pour la nature cette année. Comme j'ai la chance de travailler partout dans le monde avec tout plein de collaborateurs, j'ai eu envie de leur poser VOS questions sur les déchets plastiques et les océans. La question d'aujourd'hui nous vient de Félix, 6 ans, de Montréal, qui nous demande : POURQUOI LES ANIMAUX MANGENT DU PLASTIQUE? J'ai posé la question à Benjamin de Montgolfier, un biologiste marin, basé en Martinique.   Vous avez des questions sur le plastique dans les océans? Écrivez-nous au www.1000gestespourlanature.com ou encore sur facebook ou instagram, à l'écrit, en audio ou en vidéo, et je vous trouverai l'expert, et la réponse à ce que vous voulez savoir!

Join Oliver Gee on The Earful Tower as he explores the world of gin with special guest Quentin de Montgolfier, the founder of Distillerie du Gin. In this episode, you'll learn about the history of gin in France, the process of making gin, and how Quentin's passion for the spirit led him to open his own distillery in Paris in the Viaduc des Arts. This new distillery is one of the many hidden gems along the Viaduc des Arts, which is a former railway viaduct turned artisanal hub. Here comes a lively and informative conversation about Parisian culture, craftsmanship, and spirits. Links: Distillerie du Gin: https://distillerieduviaduc.fr/ Viaduc des Arts: https://viaducdesarts.com/ Support The Earful Tower on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theearfultower Make sure to subscribe to The Earful Tower on your favorite podcast app and leave a review! Keywords: The Earful Tower, Paris, gin, Distillerie du Gin, Quentin de Montgolfier, Viaduc des Arts, artisanal hub, Parisian culture, craftsmanship, spirits, podcast, Patreon.

Humans have probably considered flight since they found birds. As far as 228 million years ago, the Pterosaurs used flight to reign down onto other animals from above and eat them. The first known bird-like dinosaur was the Archaeopteryx, which lived around 150 million years ago. It's not considered an ancestor of modern birds - but other dinosaurs from the same era, the theropods, are. 25 million years later, in modern China, the Confuciusornis sanctus had feathers and could have flown. The first humans wouldn't emerge from Africa until 23 million years later. By the 2300s BCE, the Summerians depicted shepherds riding eagles, as humanity looked to the skies in our myths and legends. These were creatures, not vehicles. The first documented vehicle of flight was as far back as the 7th century BCE when the Rāmāyana told of the Pushpaka Vimāna, a palace made by Vishwakarma for Brahma, complete with chariots that flew the king Rama high into the atmosphere. The Odyssey was written around the same time and tells of the Greek pantheon of Gods but doesn't reference flight as we think of it today. Modern interpretations might move floating islands to the sky, but it seems more likely that the floating island of Aeollia is really the islands off Aeolis, or Anatolia, which we might refer to as the modern land of Turkey.  Greek myths from a few hundred years later introduced more who were capable of flight. Icarus flew into the sun with wings that had been fashioned by Daedalus. By then, they could have been aware, through trade routes cut by Alexander and later rulers, of kites from China. The earliest attempts at flight trace their known origins to 500 BCE in China. Kites were, like most physical objects, heavier than air and could still be used to lift an object into flight. Some of those early records even mention the ability to lift humans off the ground with a kite. The principle used in kites was used later in the development of gliders and then when propulsion was added, modern aircraft. Any connection between any of these is conjecture as we can't know how well the whisper net worked in those ages. Many legends are based on real events. The history of humanity is vast and many of our myths are handed down through the generations. The Greeks had far more advanced engineering capabilities than some of the societies that came after. They were still weary of what happened if they flew too close to the sun. In fact, emperors of China are reported to have forced some to leap from cliffs on a glider as a means of punishment. Perhaps that was where the fear of flight for some originated from. Chinese emperor Wang Mang used a scout with bird features to glide on a scouting mission around the same time as the Icarus myth might have been documented. Whether this knowledge informed the storytellers Ovid documented in his story of Icarus is lost to history, since he didn't post it to Twitter. Once the Chinese took the string off the kite and they got large enough to fly with a human, they had also developed hang gliders. In the third century BCE, Chinese inventors added the concept of rotors for vertical flight  when they developed helicopter-style toys. Those were then used to frighten off enemies. Some of those evolved into the beautiful paper lanterns that fly when lit.There were plenty of other evolutions and false starts with flight after that. Abbas ibn Ferns also glided with feathers in the 9th century. A Benedictine monk did so again in the 11th century. Both were injured when they jumped out of towers in the Middle Ages that spanned the Muslim Golden Age to England.  Leonardo da Vinci studied flight for much of his life. His studies produced another human-power ornithopter and other contraptions; however he eventually realized that humans would not be able to fly on their own power alone. Others attempted the same old wings made of bird feathers, wings that flapped on the arms, wings tied to legs, different types of feathers, finding higher places to jump from, and anything they could think of. Many broke bones, which continued until we found ways to supplement human power to propel us into the air. Then a pair of brothers in the Ottoman Empire had some of the best luck. Hezarafen Ahmed Çelebi crossed the Bosphorus strait on a glider. That was 1633, and by then gunpowder already helped the Ottomans conquer Constantinople. That ended the last vestiges of ancient Roman influence along with the Byzantine empire as the conquerers renamed the city to Instanbul. That was the power of gunpowder. His brother then built a rocket using gunpowder and launched himself high in the air, before he glided back to the ground.  The next major step was the hot air balloon. The modern hot air balloon was built by the Montgolfier brothers in France and first ridden in 1783 and (Petrescu & Petrescu, 2013). 10 days later, the first gas balloon was invented by Nicholas Louis Robert and Jacques Alexander Charles. The gas balloon used hydrogen and in 1785, used to cross the English Channel. That trip sparked the era of dirigibles. We built larger balloons to lift engines with propellers. That began a period that culminated with the Zeppelin. From the 1700s and on, much of what da Vinci realized was rediscovered, but this time published, and the body of knowledge built out. The physics of flight were then studied as new sciences emerged. Sir George Cayley started to actually apply physics to flight in the 1790s.  Powered Flight We see this over and over in history; once we understand the physics and can apply science, progress starts to speed up. That was true when Archimedes defined force multipliers with the simple machines in the 3rd century BCE, true with solid state electronics far later, and true with Cayley's research. Cayley conducted experiments, documented his results, and proved hypotheses. He finally got to codifying bird flight and why it worked. He studied the Chinese tops that worked like modern helicopters. He documented glided flight and applied math to why it worked. He defined drag and measured the force of windmill blades. In effect, he got to the point that he knew how much power was required based on the ratio of weight to actually sustain flight. Then to achieve that, he explored the physics of fixed-wing aircraft, complete with an engine, tail assembly, and fuel. His work culminated in a work called “On Aerial Navigation” that was published in 1810.  By the mid-1850s, there was plenty of research that flowed into the goal for sustained air travel. Ideas like rotors led to rotor crafts. Those were all still gliding. Even with Cayley's research, we had triplane gliders, gliders launched from balloons. After that, the first aircrafts that looked like the modern airplanes we think of today were developed. Cayley's contributions were profound. He even described how to mix air with gasoline to build an engine. Influenced by his work, others built propellers. Some of those were steam powered and others powered by tight springs, like clockworks. Aeronautical societies were created, wing counters and cambering were experimented with, and wheels were added to try to lift off. Some even lifted a little off the ground. By the 1890s, the first gasoline powered biplane gliders were developed and flown, even if those early experiments crashed. Humanity was finally ready for powered flight. The Smithsonian housed some of the earliest experiments. They hired their third director, Samuel Langley, in 1887. He had been interested in aircraft for decades and as with many others had studied the Cayley work closely. He was a consummate tinkerer and had already worked in solar physics and developed the Allegheny Time System. The United States War department gave him grants to pursue his ideas to build an airplane. By then, there was enough science that humanity knew it was possible to fly and so there was a race to build powered aircraft. We knew the concepts of drag, rudders, thrust from some of the engineering built into ships. Some of that had been successfully used in the motorcar. We also knew how to build steam engines, which is what he used in his craft. He called it the Aerodrome and built a number of models. He was able to make it further than anyone at the time. He abandoned flight in 1903 when someone beat him to the finish line.  That's the year humans stepped beyond gliding and into the first controlled, sustained, and powered flight. There are reports that Gustave Whitehead beat the Wright Brothers, but he didn't keep detailed notes or logs, and so the Wrights are often credited with the discovery. They managed to solve the problem of how to roll, built steerable rudders, and built the first biplane with an internal combustion engine. They flew their first airplane out of North Carolina when Orville Wright went 120 feet and his brother went 852 feet later that day. That plane now lives at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC and December 17th, 1903 represents the start of the age of flight. The Wright's spent two years testing gliders and managed to document their results. They studied in wind tunnels, tinkered with engines, and were methodical if not scientific in their approach. They didn't manage to have a public demonstration until 1908 though and so there was a lengthy battle over the patents they filed. Turns out it was a race and there were a lot of people who flew within months of one another. Decades of research culminated into what had to be: airplanes. Innovation happened quickly. Flight improved enough that planes could cross English Channel by 1909. There were advances after that, but patent wars over the invention drug on and so investors stayed away from the unproven technology.  Flight for the Masses The superpowers of the world were at odds for the first half of the 1900s. An Italian pilot flew a reconnaissance mission in Libya in the Italo-Turkish war in 1911. It took only 9 days before they went from just reconnaissance and dropped grenades on Turkish troops from the planes. The age of aerial warfare had begun. The Wrights had received an order for the first plane from the military back in 1908. Military powers took note and by World War I there was an air arm of every military power. Intelligence wins wars. The innovation was ready for the assembly lines, so during and after the war, the first airplane manufacturers were born. Dutch engineer Anthony Fokker was inspired by Wilbur Wright's exhibition in 1908. He went on to start a company and design the Fokker M.5, which evolved into the Fokker E.I. after World War I broke out in 1914. They mounted a machine gun and synchronized it to the  propeller in 1915. Manfred von Richthofen, also known as the Red Baron, flew one before he upgraded to the Fokker D.VII and later an Albatros. Fokker made it all the way into the 1990s before they went bankrupt. Albatros was founded in 1909 by Enno Huth, who went on to found the German Air Force before the war. The Bristol Aeroplane Company was born in 1910 after Sir George White, who was involved in transportation already, met Wilbur Wright in France. Previous companies were built to help hobbyists, similar to how many early PC companies came from inventors as well. This can be seen with people like Maurice Mallet, who helped design gas balloons and dirigibles. He licensed airplane designs to Bristol who later brought in Frank Barnwell and other engineers that helped design the Scout. They based the Bristol Fighters that were used in World War I on those designs. Another British manufacturer was Sopwith, started by Thomas Sopwith, who taught himself to fly and then started a company to make planes. They built over 16,000 by the end of the war. After the war they pivoted to make ABC motorcycles and eventually sold to Hawker Aircraft in 1920, which later sold to Raytheon.  The same paradigm played out elsewhere in the world, including the United States. Once those patent disputes were settled, plenty knew flight would help change the world. By 1917 the patent wars in the US had to end as the countries contributions to flight suffered. No investor wanted to touch the space and so there was a lack of capital to expand. Orville Write passed away in 1912 and Wilbur sold his rights to the patents, so the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, stepped in and brought all the parties to the table to develop a cross-licensing organization. After almost 25 years, we could finally get innovation in flight back on track globally. In rapid succession, Loughead Aircraft, Lockheed, and Douglas Aircraft were founded. Then Jack Northrop left those and started his own aircraft company. Boeing was founded in 1957 as Aero Products and then United Aircraft, which was spun off into United Airlines as a carrier in the 1930s with Boeing continuing to make planes. United was only one of many a commercial airline that was created. Passenger air travel started after the first air flights with the first airline ferrying passengers in 1914. With plenty of airplanes assembled at all these companies, commercial travel was bound to explode into its own big business. Delta started as a cropdusting service in Macon, Georgia in 1925 and has grown into an empire. The worlds largest airline at the time of this writing is American Airlines, which started in 1926 when a number of smaller airlines banded together. Practically every country had at least one airline. Pan American (Panam for short) in 1927, Ryan Air started in 1926, Slow-Air in 1924, Finnair in 1923, Quantus in 1920, KLM in 1919, and the list goes on. Enough that the US passed the Air Commerce Act in 1926, which over time led to the department of Air Commerce, which evolved into the Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA we know today. Aircrafts were refined and made more functional. World War I brought with it the age of aerial combat. Plenty of supply after the war and then the growth of manufacturers Brough further innovation to compete with one another, and commercial aircraft and industrial uses (like cropdusting) enabled more investment into R&D In 1926, the first flying boat service was inaugurated from New York to Argentina. Another significant development in aviation was in the 1930s when the jet engine was invented. This invention was done by Frank Whittle who registered a turbojet engine patent. A jet plane was also developed by Hans von Ohain and was called the Heinkel He 178 (Grant, 2017).  The plane first flew in 1939, but the Whittle jet engine is the ancestor of those found in planes in World War II and beyond. And from there to the monster airliners and stealth fighters or X-15 becomes a much larger story. The aerospace industry continued to innovate both in the skies and into space.  The history of flight entered another phase in the Cold War. Rand corporation developed the concept of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (or ICBMs) and the Soviet Union launched the first satellite into space in 1957.  Then in 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first landing on the moon and we continued to launch into space throughout the 1970s to 1990s, before opening up space travel to private industry. Those projects got bigger and bigger and bigger. But generations of enthusiasts and engineers were inspired by devices far smaller, and without pilots in the device.

Avec Albéric de Serrant Auteur de "L'École asphyxiée - Redonnons de l'air à notre école !" (éditions Mame)

La récente affaire de ce ballon chinois survolant le territoire américain et suspecté de vouloir recueillir des informations, a été amplement relatée par les médias du monde entier. Mais l'utilisation de ballons espions est loin d'être une nouveauté. Et c'est à la France qu'il faut attribuer leur invention. En effet, le premier ballon de ce type a pris son envol en 1794. Soit seulement onze ans après le premier vol dans un ballon à air chaud organisé par les frères Montgolfier. Ce ballon, baptisé l'"Entreprenant", avait été conçu par un chimiste, Jean-Marie-Joseph Coutelle, qui avait pris la direction d'une compagnie militaire d'aérostiers. Gonflé à l'hydrogène, ce ballon pouvait emporter sa nacelle jusqu'à une hauteur de 500 mètres. À cette époque, la France révolutionnaire est en guerre contre une partie de l'Europe. On décide donc d'utiliser l'"Entreprenant" pour repérer les mouvements des troupes ennemies. Les observations faites par les aérostiers, au cours de la bataille de Fleurus, le 26 juin 1794, ont contribué à la victoire de l'armée française. Ces ballons espions, chargés de la reconnaissance de l'armée adverse, seront souvent utilisés par la suite. Surtout lancés par les Nordistes, on en voit plusieurs survoler les champs de bataille de la guerre de Sécession. Il ne s'agit d'ailleurs pas seulement de ballons en vol libre. Certains sont des ballons captifs, rattachés au sol par un câble. Ces ballons jouent aussi un rôle important durant la guerre franco-prussienne de 1870, et notamment pendant le siège de Paris. En effet, ils devaient s'élever de la capitale pour surveiller l'évolution des troupes ennemies. Mais ils servent aussi à convoyer le courrier et l'un d'eux transporte même le ministre de l'Intérieur, Léon Gambetta, vers la province, où il doit animer la résistance. On verra ces ballons réapparaître, durant la Première Guerre mondiale, où ils sont utilisés par les Allemands pour observer les lignes ennemies. Ces ballons captifs se montrent plus stables et leur forme allongée leur vaut le surnom de "saucisses", donné par les soldats français. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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On this special episode of A Brothers' Creed Podcast we do a theatrical telling of two stories of brothers.  We celebrate the bonds of brotherhood and tell the stories of two sets of brothers from history that will inspire and entertain you. Jared first tells the story of the Montgolfier brothers who were the original inventors of the hot air balloon. They invented the first hot air balloon that allowed men for the first time in known history to break the bonds of earth and soar to the sky. The story talks about their discovery of the hot air balloon science, up to the first untethered manned flight in Paris.  Ethan then shares the story of Frank and Jesse James. These notorious outlaws had a troubled past together but all along the way they supported and leaned on one another. They later in life they became bank and train robbers who pulled off many heists. Through the thick and thin of that lifestyle they stood together and perhaps helped fake one brothers death in order to escape the law.  Don't miss this creed building episode about brotherhood and the important bond that can form between siblings.  After you listen to this episode go check out their mini-pod series to hear the full stories.  Follow us on Instagram @a.brothers.creed Follow us on YouTube Follow us on TikTok @a.brothers.creed  

Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier was one of two men who left the earth's surface and flew in Montgolfier's balloon for the very first time. He also designed a type of balloon that was given his name that flew using a combination of a lifting gas and hot air. More than 200 years later, his design would be used in the balloon that made the first non stop round the world flight. A Rozièr balloon   Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier in a Montgolfier balloon   De Rozièr perishes in a baloon crash over Wimereux   Don Cameron led the way in record breaking and unusual balloon design     Double Eagle II   Virgin Flyer   The successful balloon circumnavigation by Piccard and Jones     Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to those Public Domain images available, NASA, the Smithsonian,The Virgin Group, Cameron balloons and Breitling.

Le ballon espion c'est une invention française. Et le ballon tout court d'ailleurs le 19 octobre 1783 avec le premier vol humain des frères Montgolfier. 10 ans plus tard, cette innovation technologique, nous allons l'utiliser lors d'une bataille, celle face aux troupes autrichiennes et anglaises le 26 juin 1794 à Fleurus en Belgique. Un an plus tôt a été créée une compagnie militaire d'aérostiers. Puisque nous sommes les premiers à avoir des ballons dirigeables, autant en profiter. C'est ainsi que le physicien Jean-Marie Joseph Coutelle et Nicolas-Jacques Conté, l'inventeur du crayon papier, fabriquent ce ballon militaire baptisé l'Entreprenant. Tous les jours à 6h50 sur RTL, Florian Gazan révèle une histoire insolite et surprenante, liée à l'actualité.

À la fin du XVIIIe siècle, on se passionne pour les ballons qui, gonflés à l'hydrogène, parviennent à décoller et à s'élancer dans les cieux. Voler, le vieux rêve de l'homme, semble en passe d'être réalisé.Des pionniers aventureux ont déjà dégagé la voie. En 1782, les frères Montgolfier font monter au plafond une petite sphère d'étoffe, gonflée par un feu de laine et de lin. En juin 1783, un premier ballon, construit par leurs soins, s'élève à une hauteur de 1.000 mètres.En novembre de la même année, le scientifique français Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier participe au premier vol habité, dans un ballon qui, d'un point à l'autre de Paris, franchit une courte distance.Mais c'est un pari bien plus audacieux que veut remporter Jean-Pierre Blanchard, autodidacte imaginatif qui, entre autres inventions, conçoit une voiture à pédales et une machine hydraulique, capable de ravitailler une ville en eau.Mais il s'intéresse surtout aux aérostats, ces aéronefs plus légers que l'air. Comme les frères Montgolfier, il construit un ballon gonflé à l'hydrogène. Mais ce ballon, il veut en faire un "vaisseau des airs", capable de faire de longs trajets.Aussi le dote-t-il d'ailes et même d'un gouvernail. En mai 1782, cependant, sa première démonstration échoue : le ballon reste cloué au sol. Deux ans plus tard, c'est la réussite : le ballon s'élève du Champ de Mars, à Paris, et traverse la Seine, avant de se poser sans encombres.Dès lors, Blanchard caresse un projet un peu fou. Il traversera la Manche en ballon. Avec son ami, le physicien anglais John Jeffries, il prend place à bord d'un ballon et depuis Douvres, s'élance à la conquête de la Manche. Nous sommes le 7 janvier 1785.La traversée est mouvementée. Le ballon commence rapidement à perdre de l'altitude. Les deux hommes doivent jeter tout le lest embarqué dans la nacelle. Cela ne suffisant pas, ils jettent par dessus bord leurs provisions et se séparent même du gouvernail et des ailes.Mais ils atterrissent finalement à Guînes, dans le nord de la France, après 2 heures et 25 minutes de traversée. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

À la fin du XVIIIe siècle, on se passionne pour les ballons qui, gonflés à l'hydrogène, parviennent à décoller et à s'élancer dans les cieux. Voler, le vieux rêve de l'homme, semble en passe d'être réalisé. Des pionniers aventureux ont déjà dégagé la voie. En 1782, les frères Montgolfier font monter au plafond une petite sphère d'étoffe, gonflée par un feu de laine et de lin. En juin 1783, un premier ballon, construit par leurs soins, s'élève à une hauteur de 1.000 mètres. En novembre de la même année, le scientifique français Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier participe au premier vol habité, dans un ballon qui, d'un point à l'autre de Paris, franchit une courte distance. Mais c'est un pari bien plus audacieux que veut remporter Jean-Pierre Blanchard, autodidacte imaginatif qui, entre autres inventions, conçoit une voiture à pédales et une machine hydraulique, capable de ravitailler une ville en eau. Mais il s'intéresse surtout aux aérostats, ces aéronefs plus légers que l'air. Comme les frères Montgolfier, il construit un ballon gonflé à l'hydrogène. Mais ce ballon, il veut en faire un "vaisseau des airs", capable de faire de longs trajets. Aussi le dote-t-il d'ailes et même d'un gouvernail. En mai 1782, cependant, sa première démonstration échoue : le ballon reste cloué au sol. Deux ans plus tard, c'est la réussite : le ballon s'élève du Champ de Mars, à Paris, et traverse la Seine, avant de se poser sans encombres. Dès lors, Blanchard caresse un projet un peu fou. Il traversera la Manche en ballon. Avec son ami, le physicien anglais John Jeffries, il prend place à bord d'un ballon et depuis Douvres, s'élance à la conquête de la Manche. Nous sommes le 7 janvier 1785. La traversée est mouvementée. Le ballon commence rapidement à perdre de l'altitude. Les deux hommes doivent jeter tout le lest embarqué dans la nacelle. Cela ne suffisant pas, ils jettent par dessus bord leurs provisions et se séparent même du gouvernail et des ailes. Mais ils atterrissent finalement à Guînes, dans le nord de la France, après 2 heures et 25 minutes de traversée. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This 2016 episode covers two inventive brothers who came up with an idea to set humans aloft. The Montgolfiers were among many inventors working toward flight in the 18th century, but they often get all the attention.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joëlle De montgolfier, directrice du pôle luxe chez Bain & Company, était l'invitée de Christophe Jakubyszyn dans Good Morning Business, ce vendredi 21 octobre. Ils ont abordé le grand succès et la croissance exponentielle du secteur du luxe en France, sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission du lundi au vendredi et réécoutez la en podcast.

Ce vendredi 21 octobre, Laure Closier et Christophe Jakubyszyn ont reçu Fabien Cazes, cofondateur de Neat, Joëlle de Montgolfier, vice-présidente Grande consommation, Distribution & Luxe chez Bain & Company, Marion Papillon, galeriste et présidente du comité professionnel des galeries d'art, Sylvain Maillard, député de Paris, Marc Fiorentino, cofondateur de MeilleurTaux Placement, Benaouda Abdeddaïm, éditorialiste de BFM Business, et Jean-Marc Daniel, et professeur émérite à l'ESCP, dans l'émission Good Morning Business sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission du lundi au vendredi et réécoutez la en podcast.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Why Weren't Hot Air Balloons Invented Sooner?, published by Lost Futures on October 18, 2022 on LessWrong. TL;DR Hot air balloons certainly could have arrived at least decades earlier and there's a high chance they could have arrived centuries, possibly even millennia earlier. Jason Crawford asks, "Why did it take so long to invent X?" The post is an invitation. It asks the reader to identify low-hanging fruit, inventions that could have been invented far earlier but weren't. Now, most technologies don't fit the bill. Not everything could have been invented long before it was. Many relied on recent advancements. The airplane only became possible once engines became powerful enough to lift them into the sky. But for other inventions such as the cotton gin or flying shuttle, neither scientific nor technological barriers seem present. To this list of mysteriously absent inventions, I'd like to propose an addition: The hot air balloon. Ancient Balloons? The notion of the ancient or medieval world having hot air balloons makes for exciting counterfactual history. Floating Roman military lookouts, ornate balloons arriving with Zheng He's fleet in South Asia, balloon cartographers in the age of exploration. It's all very eye-catching, but is it realistic? In actual history, there were no Roman, Umayyadan, or Imperial Chinese hot air balloons. In fact, highly dubious claims of ancient South American balloons aside, no one in the classical or medieval world is known to have constructed a manned balloon. The first verified flight occurred in 1783, amid the industrial revolution. This early balloon was created by the Montgolfier brothers, French industrialists in the paper industry. Why Manned Balloons Could Have Been Invented Sooner Previous Inventions/Historical Precedent Mini Hot Air Balloons The sky lantern was invented by the Chinese by at least the 3rd century AD. Constructed from paper and a small fuel source, sky lanterns operated using the same principles as manned hot air balloons, well over a thousand years prior to the invention of the latter. Human Flight Before Balloons Beyond this, the concept of human flight was by no means novel to Dynastic China. Man-lifting kites were likely developed shortly before the time of the Sui Dynasty (581–618). Such kites became widespread enough throughout East Asia for the Japanese government to have prohibited them at a time. The First Hot Air Balloon Didn't Take Long To Invent While Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, having created parachutes in the past, possessed preexisting knowledge of aeronautics, the brothers did not begin experimenting with balloons until the winter of 1782. By the end of the year, the duo had successfully built two prototypes, the second of which had so much lifting force they lost control of it. The prototype would proceed to float for nearly two kilometers (1.2 miles) before landing. Upon touchdown, it was ripped apart by frightened passersby. By October 1783, the first manned flight occurred, and a month later on November 21, 1783, the first untethered manned balloon flight was performed. The Montgolfiers' Balloon Was Inefficient The Montgolfier brothers didn't quite understand the physics involved– they believed thick smoke was the key to keeping the bag aloft, so they burned things like straw, wool, and even old shoes to produce the densest possible smoke. Not recognizing that the heat had made the bag rise, the brothers also seem to have believed at the time that they had produced a new, previously undiscovered gas that was lighter than air. The Montgolfier brothers created a functional hot air balloon without understanding the underlying physics. They believed that it was the smoke rather than hot air that caused the balloon to rise. Because of this, they burned materials that would produce thick smoke su...

Joëlle de Montgolfier, directrice études du pôle luxe chez Bain & Company, était l'invité de Stéphane Pedrazzi dans Good Morning Business, ce vendredi 29 juillet. Ils ont abordé le développement du secteur du luxe et la hausse importante des bénéfices semestriels des grandes enseignes du secteur, sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission du lundi au vendredi et réécoutez la en podcast.

Joëlle de Montgolfier, directrice études du pôle luxe chez Bain & Company, était l'invitée de Christophe Jakubyszyn dans Good Morning Business, ce vendredi 29 juillet. Elle parle du secteur du luxe qui se porte bien avec 23% de hausse pour les résultats semestriels de LVMH et 34% pour Kering, sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission du lundi au vendredi et réécoutez la en podcast.

A duck, a Rooster, and a sheep wander into a wicker basket. This is not a joke it is the start of our podcast and the beginning of the ability for humans to fly. 19 September 1783 at 1 PM a cannon blasts and our Heroes of the air walk and waddle their way into history in the courtyard of Versailles in front of 130,000 people including the Queen, Marie Antoinette and King Louis.Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier had spent the years earlier experimenting with hot air and in the beginning, laundry to develop their hot air balloon.Take a listen and find out how we began flying. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For Ask Addoley + Anna's bonus episode of The Friends Season, Addoley and Anna (while on their trip to visit CAC Brétigny) have invited a set of new guest advisors. They are joined by The Big Conversation Space (Niki Korth and Clémence de Montgolfier) to discuss experiences and thoughts about collaboration. One question tackled in this episode is taken directly from The Talking Cure, a project by The Big Conversation Space which is present in The Real Show at CAC Brétigny: "What is collective action and how can it co-mingle with individual agency?" The other question addressed is: How to deal with feelings about one's individual work/practice suffering while a collaboration is thriving? In addition to The Big Conversation Space, Addoley and Anna are joined by artist Linda Lamignan, who includes collaborators in many of their works, as well as Emilie McDermott (collaborator with Nour Awada on the project [Re]Production). www.lindalamignan.com www.thebigconversationspace.org www.emiliemcdermott.com @re_production_project The Friends Season is presented as a physical installation in The Real Show at CAC Brétigny, January 16 - April 16, 2022, in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France. The Office for Contemporary Art Norway and Stavanger Municipality are supporting The Friends Season.

La voglia di volare di Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, l'invenzione del deltaplano di Otto Lilienthal e il progetto dell'automobile volante di Henry Smolinski insegnano tutti una cosa, ovvero che per puntare alla celebrità la prima regola da rispettare è quella di restare vivi.