Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/1783 balloonj.jpg
- Reason
- A 1786 etching that depicts the Montgolfier brothers' balloon with descriptive text and engineering data. Translation and conversion figures provided on image description page. A high quality archival image of a landmark event in aviation history. Restored version of Image:1783 balloon.jpg.
- Articles this image appears in
- Montgolfier brothers, Annonay, First flying machine
- Creator
- unknown
- Support as conominator --DurovaCharge! 23:54, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
- Support as conominator Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 23:58, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
- Support --Filll (talk | wpc) 00:06, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
- Support -- Highly encyclopedic, nice restoration. Pete Tillman (talk) 03:18, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
- Support very cool and encyclopedic Intothewoods29 (talk) 17:21, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
- Weak support. Hmmm. We're getting very aircraft-centric at the moment. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 13:08, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Promoted Image:1783 balloonj.jpg MER-C 10:09, 26 July 2008 (UTC)