• Lawn Chair Larry redux: Man crosses Carolina skies in cluster-balloon chair
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[url]http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/7398246/[/url] [release][img]http://wwwcache.wral.com/asset/news/news_briefs/2010/04/10/7398252/113200-balloon5-600x450.jpg[/img] SANFORD, N.C. — North Carolina pilot Jonathan Trappe flew across the sky Saturday attached to a specialized cluster-balloon chair. The cluster balloon was launched Saturday afternoon from the Wings of Carolina Flying Club in Sanford. By 9 p.m., Trappe was flying over Pittsboro, and by 6:15 a.m. Sunday, he was northwest of Goldsboro. At one point, he reached a height of 7,000 feet. "Flying a gas balloon is unlike any other experience. There is no sound. No propellers, no jet engines. No burner, no heart-thumping rotors of a helicopter. Not even the wind that gliders experience. This is true, silent flight,” Trappe wrote on ClusterBalloon.com. Trappe’s helium balloon flights are conducted in compliance with Federal Aviation Administration regulations. His in-flight safety equipment includes two-way aircraft radios, altitude encoding transponder, aviator’s breathing oxygen, pilot parachute, GPS and an emergency locator beacon. Organizers said Trappe landed shortly after 7 a.m. Sunday in Fremont. Trappe is planning to fly over the English Channel in late May or early June, organizers said. [/release] A true patriot.
What an airhead.
Don't people do this all the time? Oh, except that he actually complies to the rules and is safe about it.
How do you get back down? Pop the balloons one by one?
Surface to Air Missiles anyone?
Hey guys, remember Balloon boy?
[QUOTE=Ishmael12;21333553]Surface to Air Missiles anyone?[/QUOTE] Been done.
Wow! 7000 feet in a lawnchair? That would be scary as fuck looking down, seeing your feet dangling like that.
[QUOTE=Ishmael12;21333553]Surface to Air Missiles anyone?[/QUOTE] Most of those lock onto heat or something of the like, that has nothing of that kinda. Body heat wouldn't be enough to matter.
[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;21334656]Most of those lock onto heat or something of the like, that has nothing of that kinda. Body heat wouldn't be enough to matter.[/QUOTE] The dude could light a signaling flare and drop it if he needed a countermeasure.
What a [i]falling[/i] story.
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