<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards . No cleanup reason has been specified . Please help improve this article if you can . (November 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> The history of ballooning, both with hot air and gas, spans many centuries . It includes many firsts, including the first human flight, first flight across the English Channel, first flight in North America, and first aircraft related disaster . </P> <P> Unmanned hot air balloons are popular in Chinese history . Zhuge Liang of the Shu Han kingdom, in the Three Kingdoms era (c . AD 220 - 280) used airborne lanterns for military signaling . These lanterns are known as Kongming lanterns (孔明灯). </P> <P> It has been demonstrated that manned hot air balloons can be built using ancient materials . While there is no direct documentary or archaeological evidence that any manned or unmanned flights prior to those discussed below occurred using these methods, Ege notes an indirect report of evidence that the Chinese "solved the problem of aerial navigation" using balloons, hundreds of years before the 18th century . The Mongolian army studied Kongming lanterns from China and used them in the Battle of Legnica during the Mongol invasion of Poland . This is the first time ballooning was known in the western world . </P>

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