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Aviation Timeline > 
First airborne American - June 24 (July 17), 1784 - Edward Warren of Baltimore MD, age 13, went aloft in a captive balloon built by Peter Carnes, who was either afraid to go up or the balloon wasn't big enough to lift him. The Maryland Journal reported: "He bravely embarked as a volunteer, and behaved with the steady fortitude of an old voyager. The gazing multitude below wafted him their loud applause, the receipt of which, as he was soaring aloft, he politely acknowledged by a significant wave of his hat."
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