Vincenzo Lunardi
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Vincenzo Lunardi was a pioneering Italian aeronaut, born in Lucca.
Vincenzo Lunardi
The stone at Standon Green End, Hertfordshire, where Lunardi ended the first manned flight over England
The stone marking the spot at Standon Green End, Hertfordshire, where Lunardi ended his flight
Portrait of Vincent Lunardi, 1784
James Tytler
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James Tytler was a Scottish apothecary and the editor of the second edition of Encyclopædia Britannica. Tytler became the first person in Britain to fly by ascending in a hot air balloon.
Vincenzo Lunardi
…Vincenzo Lunardi came to England as Secretary to Prince Caramanico, the Neapolitan Ambassador. There was a flying craze in France and Scotland with James Tytler, Scotland's first aeronaut and the first Briton to fly, but even so and after a year since the invention of the balloon, the English were still sceptical…
James Tytler