This image was taken in a field in rural Victoria while Jenny Houghton was flying this hot air balloon over the area.
According to Wikipedia hot air balloons are one of the oldest forms of transport that was successful at carrying people and the earliest flight took place in Paris in 1783.
The Library of Congress has a great historical image taken c.1910-1915 from its Bain collection titled ‘L. Stevens’ depicting a hot air balloon in flight that appears on the Commons project on Flickr.
Museum photographer Sue Stafford traveled to Victoria to take photographs for the exhibition and publication, Women with wings: images of Australian women pilots and photographed the hot air balloon during this trip. This publication celebrates 50 years of the Australian Women Pilots Association .
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Photography by Sue Stafford
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0
