A person who operates or travels in a hot air balloon or early aircraft; a related term to aeronaut.
From 'aero-' (air) + '-nat' (variant of 'naut', from Latin 'nauta' meaning sailor). Rare variant term appearing occasionally in historical aviation texts.
The earliest aeronauts were balloonists, brave (or foolish) people who in the 1700s climbed into wicker baskets attached to hot air balloons, experiencing weightlessness and heights for the first time in human history.
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