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Set of 8 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of manned flight. Issued on June 4.Montgolfier Brothers and their 1783 Le Martial hot-air balloon, which carried a sheep, a cock and a duck.Ernest Demuyter and Pierre Hoffmans%u2019 balloon, OO-BFM Belgica, which won the 1937 Gordon Bennett Cup.The 1785 canal crossing by Jean-Pierre Blanchard & John Jeffries in a hot-air balloon.Jean-Pierre and Sophie Blanchard. After more than 60 ascents, Sophie to her death in 1819.Jean-Pierre Blanchard%u2019s hydrogen balloon, in his first successful flight in Paris on March 2, 1784.The Montgolfier brothers%u2019 1783 hot-air balloon, the first to carry humans, with the two pilots, Marquis d%u2019Arlandes and Pilatre de Rozier.The 1978 Double Eagle II, the first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean.Several modern recreational hot-air balloons in the air.