Nott designed and built the world's first hot air balloon with a pressurized cabin and piloted it to a world record altitude of 45,836 feet.

He was awarded the Gold Medal by the Royal Aero Club for this achievement.




The climb starts in earnest over Lake Bhopal.
  
The flight launches from Bhopal.
     

The record broken and safely down.
 
Nott, at right, and co-pilot Felix Pole, in the capsule during pre-dawn preparation.		  
Nott 36 hours after landing of the historic flight, still waiting for completion of a difficult retrieve in the remote Indian countryside.
     

The cabin under construction.