| The victorious aeronaut cemented his position as one of the leading celebrities of the city when he presented one-quarter of the purse to his crew and the rest to the poor people of Paris. |
| On 21 March 1999, he and British aeronaut Brian Jonesalighted from their Breitling Orbiter 3 in Egypt after travelling across all the Earth's meridians. |
| Orville is the world's first aeronaut in a short flight lasting just 12 seconds and covering 37 metres. |
| In hot-air ballooning he and Swedish aeronaut Per Lindstrand became in 1987 the first team to cross the Atlantic in a hot-air balloon and in 1991 the first to cross the Pacific Ocean. |
| Paul Nadar, son of Félix Tournachon, known as Nadar, was not as well-known as his father, a caricaturist and aeronaut who photographed the Paris smart set. |
| The aeronaut knows from where he will take off, he never knows in advance where exactly he is going to land. |
