They put the throttle on!

2023-07-04T16:56:57.991Z

Highlights: Historically Yours brings together 3 ladies who put the throttle: Sophie Blanchard, Eunice Newton Foote and Jessi Combs. The first French aeronaut put the gas aboard his hydrogen balloon, to fly into the sky, as her husband had done before her. She also put the gases, but in flasks, to analyze them. And a racing driver who tried to beat her own record of 640km/h in a race car with a jet engine. But alas, she was no longer there at the time of the results.

Historically Yours brings together 3 ladies who put the throttle: Sophie Blanchard, the first French aeronaut and "official aeronaut" of Napoleon himself who put the gas aboard his hydrogen balloon, to fly into the sky, as her husband had done before her. Then, she also put the gases, but in flasks, to analyze them: the forgotten scientist Eunice Newton Foote who highlighted greenhouse gases and their consequences at a time when no one was yet aware of them. And a racing driver who put the throttle on, but she really, trying to beat her own record of 640km/h in a race car with a jet engine. She succeeded, but alas, she was no longer there at the time of the results: Jessi Combs, the fastest woman in the world.