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                                    Set of 8 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of manned flight. Issued on June 28.Germany%u2019s 1936 LZ-129 Zeppelin, Hindenburg.Auguste Piccard%u2019s 1930 highaltitude stratospheric balloon, which was supported by Belgium%u2019s FNRSAlberto Santos-Dumont%u2019s 1899 dirigible, his third, in which he made his first successful controlled flight.The La Gustave balloon, in which %u00c9lisabeth Thible was the first woman to fly in an untethered hot-air balloon in 1784.The 1978 Double Eagle II, the Modern hot-air balloons.first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean.Jacques Alexander Charles 1784 balloon, the first to use hydrogen gas.The Montgolfier brothers%u2019 1783 hot-air balloon, the first to carry humans
                                
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