[Berlin_Freeper]

Everything is bigger in Texas.

[Rockpile]

There was an aviation death in Texas in the 1890s.
A stunt parachute jumper leapt from a hot air balloon
and struck a tree on the grounds of a girls college in
Dallas IIRC.

I think the first balloon fatality in the US was in the 1830s.

First recorded ones might be a couple of Frenchmen who tried
to cross the English Channel @1789.