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Last weekend, Kent Couch settled down in his lawn chair with some snacks -- and a parachute. Attached to his lawn chair were 105 large helium balloons.
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He must have had quite a set of balloons to do that!
:)
Cooool!
Couch said he could hear cattle and children and even passed through clouds.
I'd say he was pretty close to nature. :)
Couch is the latest American to emulate Larry Walters -- who in 1982 rose three miles above Los Angeles in a lawn chair lifted by balloons. Walters had surprised an airline pilot, who radioed the control tower that he had just passed a guy in a lawn chair. Walters paid a $1,500 penalty for violating air traffic rules.
I hope he gets his camera back...
so if I were to try this myself, would I need to contact the local airport to get permission?
I'm also intrigued by the vehicle - was the chair weighted to help keep it balanced?
so if I were to try this myself, would I need to contact the local airport to get permission?
Much more uplifting - not a *great* movie by any means, but enjoyable, is Danny Deck Chair [imdb.com].
Of COURSE you won't ever get permission! Easier to beg forgiveness afterward...
I would add a radar transponder to the equipment list, or at the bare minimum, fashion an omnidirectional radar corner.
Launching from the Los Angeles basin is out; if the air traffic doesn't get me, the turbulence over the mountains would. We can dream though, and live vicariously through people like this gentleman. Good show!
-Automan
not a *great* movie by any means,
Well, okay. Not a great movie like Casablanca or something, but yes, uplifting, wistful, and lots of fun. Though I have to say, I don't like most "great" movies that much (I've fallen asleep twice during Citizen Kane), and like "small" stories like Danny Deckchair, Caro Diario [imdb.com], or Voyage à Rome [imdb.com].
