Talk:Timeline of aviation in the 19th century

Throughout the timeline, the term “Montgolfière” is used as a synonym for “balloon”. To the air enthusiast/historian, “Montgolfier” implies a “hot air” balloon of the type first demonstrated by the famous brothers. The balloons most often referred to in the timeline were of  the hydrogen-filled type, pioneered by J.A.C. Charles. While it doesn't constitute a point of serious controversy, the blanket reference to all balloons as “Montgolfières” seems both inaccurate and inappropriate. Joeinphx 21:42, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

In 1804 Gay-Lussac and Biot disprove that the earth's pull decreases with height? So Newton and his gravitational law were wrong? Probably some bad translation or copy-pasting... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.46.2.65 (talk) 15:12, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

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Notability of entries
There are far too many trivial entries in this article. As it is an international article only entries which are of international notability should be included. These would include firsts and other record breaking achievements. Deaths and Births should be included in separate sections as with Year articles. Entries which are not internationally notable should be included in equivalent Country articles (which would require their creation). Cheers, DerbyCountyinNZ (Talk Contribs) 07:48, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Robertson claim dubious
This page makes the claim that Robertson took a balloon up to over 7km in 1803. That seems extremely unlikely and definitely needs further verification! It seems various other websites make similar claims, but apparently mainly based on misleading information from this Wikipedia page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.51.147.220 (talk) 21:17, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Harris's jump dubious
According to the Wikipedia article on Harris, Thomas Harris (aviator), the inquest at the time seems to indicate that Harris was found dead in the basket. 211.225.33.104 (talk) 04:53, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I've added the cite from his article which has a different version of what happened and modified the entry to be less specific about how he died. DerbyCountyinNZ (Talk Contribs) 05:20, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Steam-Jet Dart
I deleted this from the timeline because it is just a design, never implemented. Please consider starting those articles, but it just doesn't seem like it rises to the level of an overall timeline item.