Man flies 193 miles in lawn chair
 

BEND, Oregon (AP) -- 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.

Destination: Idaho.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/10/fly....ap/index.html

One way of avoiding TSA screening and other annoyances of commercial travel.

Totally cool!

The guy is an idiot. Balloon travel is for people who basically dont care where they are going.

MisterNice

Man, some people will do anything to avoid the TSA checks.

Didn't Mythbusters try that and basically fail?

I wonder if a fighter jet will escort such a flight to land because of unscheduled flight plan?

They also tried to use the emergency raft of the airplanes to use as a parachute. I think they succeeded in this one.

A great flight and an homage to the original Lawn Chair Man, Larry Walters who made his flight on July 2, 1982.

From snopes.com: http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/walters.asp

"As Larry and his lawnchair drifted into the approach path to Long Beach Municipal Airport, perplexed pilots from two passing Delta and TWA airliners alerted air traffic controllers about what appeared to be an unprotected man floating throught the sky in a chair."

Oh to have seen the looks on the faces!

Cheers Larry, you left us too soon. Kent: well done! I hope you get your video camera back.

I thought it was a great story, and I love the photo of him drifting though the blue sky.

Viva the Arm Chair Balloonists!

There's a funny Australian movie, Danny Deckchair, about precisely this...

Actually mythbusters succeeded. They had to use something like 500 regular size party ballons. But they were able to float a ca. 180 lb man (or in their case a manican.)

Didn't Cutter John do this in "Bloom County" ca. 1986?

LOL! The guy should get frequent flyer miles

Lawnchair-Air (bring your own gun)
 

Awesome, the best part is he used a small caliber gun to shoot the ballons out when he wanted to land. LMAO :)

Yeah he should get triple-bonus-founder-elite-lifetime-lawnchair-air FF miles and a badge of courage too.

Seriously this guy is a fearless hero.