| Orville is the world's first aeronaut in a short flight lasting just 12 seconds and covering 37 metres. |
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| Cartier designed the first wristwatch so the aeronaut could check the time without removing his hands from the controls. |
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| A firm believer in the future of aerial navigation, Mallet convinced his young aeronaut friends to join him in a business partnership. |
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| Solvay has committed itself to the Solar Impulse project alongside Bertrand Piccard, the first aeronaut to circle the world in a balloon. |
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| The aeronaut knows from where he will take off, he never knows in advance where exactly he is going to land. |
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| One such is Winds of Hope, an association co-founded by Bertrand Piccard, the Swiss psychiatrist and aeronaut, of whom Philippe Tardieu is a fervent admirer. |
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| On 21 March 1999, he and British aeronaut Brian Jonesalighted from their Breitling Orbiter 3 in Egypt after travelling across all the Earth's meridians. |
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| Paul Nadar, son of Félix Tournachon, known as Nadar, was not as well-known as his father, a caricaturist and aeronaut who photographed the Paris smart set. |
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| The son of a rich Brazilian estate owner, this engineer and aeronaut was a prominent figure in Parisian society, made popular by caricaturists and photographers. |
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| In hot-air ballooning he and Swedish aeronaut Per Lindstrand became in 1987 the first team to cross the Atlantic in a hot-air balloon and in 1991 the first to cross the Pacific Ocean. |
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| McClellan had assigned aeronaut John Steiner and the balloon Eagle to Gen. John Pope's Army of the Mississippi in February 1862, but Pope ignored them. |
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| American aeronaut Tracy Barnes adapted a venting system used in parachutes to make the most important advance in safety and control of hot-air balloons since the rip panel. |
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| Lilienthal's work was followed by the American aeronaut Octave Chanute, a friend of the American brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright, the fathers of modern manned flight. |
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| The victorious aeronaut cemented his position as one of the leading celebrities of the city when he presented one-quarter of the purse to his crew and the rest to the poor people of Paris. |
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| The Aeronaut Badge was established by the United States Army in World War I to denote service members who were qualified balloon pilots. |
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