Reaching for the Skies

Lighter Than Air (1x11)

Ausstrahlung: Nov 25, 1988

Paris, November 1783: an awe-struck crowd in the Bois de Boulogne watched as a balloon built by Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier rose into the sky. Later, magnificent airships became luxurious liners of the skies. But the disasters of the R101 and the Hindenburg brought this chapter to a fiery end.