Helium Balloons Carry Man in Lawnchair 193 Miles

[freedomhays]

This would seem quite scary to me...

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

[Chris_F]

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?"

[a1]

hehe. Didn't the Mythbusters do that one?

[Sir_Crashalot]

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

[beaky]

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

[freedomhays]

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..... :-/

[TacitBlue]

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

[aussiewannabe]

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.

[john_uk]

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!

[commoner]

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

[dcunning30]

In honor of Lawnchair Larry....

...he was the first!   8-)

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