Man flies 193 miles in lawn chair
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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
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Destination: Idaho.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/10/fly....ap/index.html
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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.
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.
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There's a funny Australian movie, Danny Deckchair, about precisely this...
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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.
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.