On 21st January 1889, the first manned flight in New Zealand skies was successfully accomplished. Thomas Baldwin performed his daredevil act high above South Dunedin. It would be his 52nd balloon jump.
Born on June 30, 1854 Thomas Baldwin’s first job was as a brakeman on the Illinois railroad. Wanting more excitement in his life, he joined a circus working as an acrobat. In 1875, he created the dangerous act of combining trapeze and a hot air balloon. He honed his act and 10 years later, on January 30, 1885 he made one of the earliest recorded parachute jumps from a balloon then subsequently toured the world as a paid entertainer. Calling himself an ‘aeronaut’, he performed his jumps without being harnessed to his parachute!
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