Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/1783 balloonj.jpg

First manned balloon flight

 * Reason:A 1786 etching that depicts the Montgolfier brothers' balloon with descriptive text and engineering data. Translation and conversion figures provided on image description page.  A high quality archival image of a landmark event in aviation history.  Restored version of Image:1783 balloon.jpg.
 * Articles this image appears in:Montgolfier brothers, Annonay, First flying machine
 * Creator:unknown


 * Support as conominator -- Durova Charge! 23:54, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Support as conominator Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 23:58, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Support --Filll (talk | wpc ) 00:06, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Support -- Highly encyclopedic, nice restoration. Pete Tillman (talk) 03:18, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Support very cool and encyclopedic Intothewoods29 (talk) 17:21, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak support. Hmmm. We're getting very aircraft-centric at the moment. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 13:08, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

MER-C 10:09, 26 July 2008 (UTC)