Overcome Your Doubts and Fly High

After testing with paper and fabric balloons and a public demonstration, brothers Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier of France launched the Montgolfier balloon on its first manned flight on October 15, 1783. Can you also imagine the emotions the two brothers experienced prior to their first flight? I'll bet they experienced every emotion from excitement to fear. Do you think they had moments where they felt uncertainty or doubt?

How do you think they overcame their doubts?

---Steve Kloyda