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Considered the first fatalities of humanity’s ascension into the skies, the deaths of Pilâtre de Rozier and Pierre Romain in 1785 are commemorated in this beautiful series of cards depicting ballooning and parachuting history. Another early aviator, the glider-pilot Otto Lilienthal, was mortally wounded in a stall-induced crash; as he lay dying, he is said to have exclaimed: Opfer müssen gebracht werden! Sacrifices must be made!

Considered the first fatalities of humanity’s ascension into the skies, the deaths of Pilâtre de Rozier and Pierre Romain in 1785 are commemorated in this beautiful series of cards depicting ballooning and parachuting history.

Another early aviator, the glider-pilot Otto Lilienthal, was mortally wounded in a stall-induced crash; as he lay dying, he is said to have exclaimed: Opfer müssen gebracht werden!

Sacrifices must be made!

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