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This would seem quite scary to me...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288809,00.html

So, how exactly do you file a flight plan for that?

"N37624, squawk 1592."

"umm, okay.  SQUWAK...  SQUWAK...  SQUWAK...  Do I really have to do this fifteen hundred times?"

hehe. Didn't the Mythbusters do that one?

Yep, they tried to lift a little girl. Took a few thousand smaller balloons though.

Great flight. I wonder if it is allowed to do something like this here in Europe....

Crash

What the heck- with a parachute, it'd be fun.

What the heck- with a parachute, it'd be fun.

Maybe,  but suppose you only got to one or two hundred feet and and for some reason the thing fell like a rock,  not only would your rump be sore..... :-/

Why doesn't he just learn to fly airplanes like the rest of us? Or get into real ballooning?

I saw that on the news yesterday. Thought it might be a good submission for the July Screenshot contest.  Alas, nobody has come up with that as an add-on.

Why doesn't he just learn to fly airplanes like the rest of us? Or get into real ballooning?

ballooning doesnt get any more real than that my friend!

Why doesn't he just learn to fly airplanes like the rest of us? Or get into real ballooning?

...mmm....might as well say why did't the Wright bros. walk or ride a horse like the rest of their peers......this is what humans do.....it's the way we progress.........commoner

In honor of Lawnchair Larry....

...he was the first!   8-)

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/l/ ... rlarry.htm