Tag: balloon flight

This story by Rezwan originally appeared on Global Voices on 17th of September 2021. It is republished under a Creative Commons Attribution-Only license.   The first manned balloon flight in present-day Bangladesh happened in 1892, and ended in tragedy. A Dhaka Nawab contracted a balloonist troupe from the USA and advertised that a daredevil woman from America would ascend in a balloon and fly over the Ahsan...