Ballon de la porte des Ternes / aeronaut Monument

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Statue de Auguste Bartholdi hommage aux aéronautes du siège de la Commune de Paris. Monument to aeronauts Paris blockade period 1870-1871.Vozdushnye balls have also been used as a method of transmitting messages. Over the entire period of the siege of the city of 65 flights had been committed, ferried 164 passengers and 11 tons of mail. The sending of one message balloon was 20 centimes. Basically, all the flights were carried out at night. Not everyone is successful flights. 2 So the ball was lost in the sea, six balls were intercepted by the Germans during landing. Accidentally it was set a world record for distance flight in a balloon. One ball landed safely in the Norwegian woods. Flight range of approximately 1410 km.Monument sculptor A.Bartoldi (he is the author of the famous Statue of Liberty) was inaugurated on January 28, 1906 g.Statuya was sent by the Germans to be melted down in 1941. This photo was probably the last of the famous image of the monument.