On April 20, 2008, lifting off from Paranaguá, Brazil, in an attempt to fly 725 km (450 mi) inland to Dourados, Brazil, he flew using a chair suspended under 1,000 party balloons, reaching an altitude of 6,100 metres (20,000 ft). Not having checked the weather forecast, he got caught in a …

Feb 5, 2023 · Information suggesting that Chinese spy balloons traveled over the continental United States during the Trump administration was "discovered after" former President Donald Trump left office, a...

Jul 9, 2019 · Here is the full story of Lawn Chair Larry, the guy who created the sport of cluster ballooning when he tied weather balloons to a lawn chair and flew. How a regular guy built a cluster balloon and had his flight go viral before that was even a thing.

Nov 12, 2023 · At 11 AM on July 2, 1982, Lawnchair Larry decided to take flight from the backyard of his girlfriend's home in San Pedro, California. He would realize this by tying 42 8-foot helium-filled weather balloons, tiered into four layers, to a Sears-purchased aluminum lawn chair.

Apr 17, 2018 · With the help of his then-girlfriend, he attached 45 helium-filled weather balloons to an aluminum lawnchair, which he christened “Inspiration I.” On July 2, 1982, he strapped on a parachute, packed up his lawnchair with sandwiches; a bottle of soda, a camera, a CB radio, and a pellet gun, and settled in for the ride.

On July 2, 1982, Los Angeles truck driver Larry Walters launched his “aircraft”—a Sears lawn chair dubbed Inspiration — from his backyard. He had attached to it more than 40 helium-filled weather...

Larry Walters, or "Lawnchair Larry", had his 15 minutes of fame back in the 1980s when he "piloted" a standard garden chair to 16,500ft above Long Beach L.A. Using nothing more than some surplus...

May 24, 1998 · George Plimpton’s 1998 profile of Larry Walters, who used a lawn chair and some weather balloons to take flight.

Mar 21, 2023 · On July 2, 1982, Larry Walters, a 33-year-old Long Beach, California man without any flight training, went for a 90-minute ride in the sky in a Sears Roebuck lawn chair, carried aloft by 42...

Apr 18, 2024 · In 1982, a truck driver made headlines when he tied 42 helium balloons to a garden chair and flew over part of Los Angeles. A new stage musical reclaims him as a hero, although questions remain...