The first successful flight was made in a hot air balloon when Frenchmen Francois Pilatre de Rosier and Francois Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, flew for 25 minutes above Paris for a distance of some 5 1/2 miles.
Wade, Heat rising again -11/21/2008 2:30am
With two rookies in the starting lineup and a rookie head coach, the Miami Heat seemed no threat to the Boston Celtics' Eastern Conference supremacy.