Rozière balloon days or even weeks. The first Rozière was built for an attempt at crossing the English Channel on 15 June 1785. The balloon suddenly deflated (without the envelope catching fire) and crashed near Wimereux in the Pas-de-Calais, killing Rozier, who was riding the balloon. Presently, Rozière designs use non-flammable helium rather than hydrogen. Their primary application is for extremely long duration flights. The first successful Atlantic crossing was made 31 August to 2 September 1986, Newfoundland to the Netherlands, by Brink, Brink and Hageman in the balloon "Dutch Viking". During February 1992, the first east-to-west Atlantic crossing was achieved by
Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon characters as well as minigames are found in the game. Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon is a children's video game developed by Capitol Multimedia, Inc., published by Brøderbund and released in 1996 for the Macintosh and Windows and Windows 3.x systems. In the town of Acorn Hollow, Gregory "The Party Freak" Chuckwood and his pet lizard Newt go for a ride in a hot air balloon, but they drift away to a faraway place. With the balloon downed, Gregory needs to find the scattered balloon parts to get it going again so he