Julian Nott is a British balloonist who now lives in Santa Barbara, CA, USA. He is known for his achievements in record-setting exploits. Nott has set 79 World ballooning Records and 96 British aviation records. He is currently actively involved in developing balloons for flights at Solar System destinations particularly Titan. He recently flew a working prototype Titan balloon at minus 175 Celsius, approximately the temperature of Titan's atmosphere. For further details of this work see www.NOTT.com/papers

He has also demonstrated the possibility that the Nazca Lines

Nazca Lines

The Nazca Lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. They were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The high, arid plateau stretches more than between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana about 400 km south of Lima...

 geoglyph

Geoglyph

A geoglyph is a large design or motif produced on the ground and typically formed by clastic rocks or similarly durable elements of the geography, such as stones, stone fragments, gravel, or earth...

s could have been with guidance from Nazca culture

Nazca culture

The Nazca culture was the archaeological culture that flourished from 100 to 800 CE beside the dry southern coast of Peru in the river valleys of the Rio Grande de Nazca drainage and the Ica Valley...

 tribal leaders as long as two millennia ago, aloft in what could have been the earliest hot air balloon

Hot air balloon

The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. It is in a class of aircraft known as balloon aircraft. On November 21, 1783, in Paris, France, the first untethered manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in a hot air...

flights in human history. http://www.nott.com/Pages/projects.php

External links

• http://nott.com/Pages/about.php
• http://www.nott.com/Pages/projects.php
• http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/plecture/nott/
• http://www.spacedata.net/advisors.htm
• http://ballooninghistory.com/whoswho/who'swho-n.html
• http://records.fai.org/pilot.asp?from=balloons&id=328