Balloon (aeronautics) balloon filled with hydrogen would be able to rise in the air. The first recorded manned flight was made in a hot air balloon built by the Montgolfier brothers on 21 November 1783. The flight started in Paris and reached a height of 500 feet or so. The pilots, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, covered about 5½ miles in 25 minutes. On 1 December 1783, Professor Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers made the first gas balloon flight, also from Paris. Their hydrogen-filled balloon flew to almost 2,000 feet (600 m), stayed aloft for over 2 hours
Hot air ballooning the Bull often rides in a hot air balloon. On "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World", disaster strikes and their hot air balloon crashes in the uncharted Amazon jungle. In the 1984 miniseries "V: The Final Battle", humans defeat the alien visitors by dropping red dust from hot air balloons. In "The Simpsons", episode 328, "Co-Dependent's Day" from season 15, originally aired on Sunday, March 21, 2004, at the end, when Marge asks Homer who is watching the kids, the scene cuts to Bart and Lisa in the basket of a hot air balloon. In "The Simpsons", episode 336,