Reaching for the Skies S01E04 - Lighter Than Air

Paris, November 1783: an awe-struck crowd in the Bois de Boulogne watched as a balloon built by Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier rose into the sky.

Later, magnificent airships, became luxurious liners of the skies. But the disasters of the R101 and the Hindenburg brought this chapter to a fiery end.