Le Géant
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Le Géant was a balloon operated by Nadar and built on commission by Eugène Godard.[1]
211,000 cubic feet of gas and an spacious car with instruments for photography and meteorology as well as accommodations for passengers.[2]
Crash landed in Hanover, with nine passengers aboard, "damaging buildings, destroying railroad embankments, and breaking telegraph-wires, until finally it remained suspended in a forest near Rethem"—yet survived to make more voyages.[2]
