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Look! In the sky! It's a bird! It's a building! It's 200 men in a thin canvass skin wrapped over super-light aluminum scaffolding held aloft by thousands of pounds of highly combustible gas! We take flight for granted these days. So much so that we actually complain about it. But 100 years ago it wasn't to be taken so…lightly! The sky was literally the limit, and pushing it often lead to disaster, and tragedy. Join Jason Petty on a trip back through time to an era when men dared to dream big, and often paid dearly.