Long And Foster Hot Air Balloon


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Long And Foster Hot Air Balloon

Long And Foster Hot Air Balloon

In the 1970s, an American by the name of Jim Woodman set out to prove his new and radical Nazca Lines theory. While both the purpose and construction of the Nazca desert geoglyphs have often divided scholarly opinion, Woodman’s idea was to come, quite literally, out of the blue. Could the Nazca civilization really have built and flown the world’s first hot air balloon?

A New Nazca Lines Theory

Woodman theorized that the magnificent geoglyphs would not have been made if the Nazca people themselves could not have appreciated the results of their labors. Why, he argued, go to such lengths to create the intricate lines and figures if they could never be seen? Looking down on the Nazca Lines from the air, Woodman became convinced that the Nazca people had taken flight.

While historians do not always agree upon how and why the Nazca Lines were created, there is a general acceptance that they were built by the Nazca civilization. This in turn places the construction of the lines somewhere between 200 BC and 600 AD. That the Nazca had flown, therefore, would seem a somewhat fanciful notion. Woodman, however, was determined to prove his theory.