aerospace founder don piccard headquarters united states products hot air balloons website www.piccard.info piccard balloons along with raven industries founded by ed yost semco and the balloon works now firefly balloons was among the first manufacturers of hot air balloons . 1 don piccard descended from a long line of aeronauts built and sold some of the first modern hot air balloons beginning in the mid 1960s . 2 piccard balloons contributed much to the sport of hot air ballooning through innovative design and construction . references edit the history of ballooning piccard balloons . retrieved 2010 06 09 . national balloon museum history of ballooning . retrieved 2010 06 09 . the history of ballooning piccard balloons national balloon museum history of ballooning external links edit official website this aeronautical company related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title piccard balloons & oldid 668363205 categories aircraft manufacturers of the united statesaeronautical company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 23 june 2015 at 21 48 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view