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An 1886 aerial photograph by Major Henry Elsdale of the Balloon School camp at Lydd, Kent

The School of Ballooning was a training and test centre for British Army experiments with balloons and airships. It was established at Chatham in Kent in 1888. The School moved to Stanhope Lines, Aldershot in 1890 when a balloon section and depot were formed as permanent units of the Royal Engineers establishment. The School was sometimes known as the Balloon Factory.

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Air Battalion Royal Engineers

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Royal Aircraft Establishment

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Hot air ballooning

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Balloon Factory

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1907 in aviation

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Royal School of Military Engineering

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architecture. Architecture was introduced in 1825. Ballooning First introduced in the 1860s as a means of aerial reconnaissance. After the Anglo-Boer war...

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1907 in the United Kingdom

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1908 in the United Kingdom

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powered fixed-wing aircraft flight in Britain, taking off at the School of Ballooning, Farnborough, Hampshire, in British Army Aeroplane No 1. November...

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Eleanor Vadala

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Triaxially Woven Fabrics of Kevlar, Dacron Polyester and Hybrids of Kevlar and Dacron Polyester (1980). Vadala was introduced to ballooning through Tony Fairbanks...

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Prince William of Gloucester

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aircraft, trekking through the Sahara, and hot air ballooning. He was the most recent descendant of George III to be diagnosed with porphyria, probably...

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John Capper

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briefly become the Balloon Companies, the organisation became the School of Ballooning with Capper as its Commandant. At about the same time the Balloon...

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