An amazing original 1909 colour photograph of hot air balloons at the inaugural Paris Air Show. It was taken by Léon Gimpel, using the 'Autochrome Lumière' process, the first commercial process for colour photography.

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@Natasha_Jay I need someone to identify the planes at the bottom!!!!

@felipe @Natasha_Jay At the absolute bottom is the Blériot XI. Almost certainly the plane that Blériot flew across the English Channel.

Then left and above that is an Etrich Taube which may or may not have flown at this time but went into production the next year.

Above that is the Santos-Dumont 14-bis, very distinctive, which some ouside of the US see as the first flight.

The rest are not distictive enough for me to ID. Though there may be list for this aivation event, somewhere.

Blériot XI - Wikipedia