SoCaliSon
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I am sure a lot of you heard the story on the news a couple weeks back about the Brazillian Priest who was trying to raise money for a "spritual truck stop" by breaking the record for flying attached to helium balloons.
Did they ever find this guy? For days after they were swearing that he would be found alive... Well I'm sure if that if they haven't time is running out.
If you haven't heard about this here is a linkhttp://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-priest22apr22,1,3700204.story
Reading this I learned about a guy named "Lawn Chair Larry", who I always thought was a myth, but actully was the first person to try this in 1982. I looked into this story and found pics... this actally happened. He tied 40 some odd Army Surplus weather balloons to his jeep while he inflated them all with helium and tied them to his lawn chair. His goal was supposedly try to hover 30 ft. above his house until he was ready to come down
rolleyes. He brought a pellet gun to shoot balloons to decend and a 6 pack of Miller Light. Well needless to say he shot into the atmosphere and instead of floating 30 feet above the ground and he eventually leveld off at 16,000 feet where he stayed freezing for 14 hours. He thought that at that altitude if he risked shooting a balloon it would unbalance the load and make things worse. Eventually he floated into the main approach corridor for LAX Airport where a Pan Am pilot was reported radioing in to the tower"We just passed a guy on a lawn chair with a gun!"LOL... Rescue choppers followed him out to sea where they eventually plucked him out of the water and arrested him for invading LAX airspace. That is freaking great... I would love to hear any comments on this. Truthfully... I just might be crazy enough to try something like this...
Did they ever find this guy? For days after they were swearing that he would be found alive... Well I'm sure if that if they haven't time is running out.
If you haven't heard about this here is a linkhttp://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-priest22apr22,1,3700204.story
Reading this I learned about a guy named "Lawn Chair Larry", who I always thought was a myth, but actully was the first person to try this in 1982. I looked into this story and found pics... this actally happened. He tied 40 some odd Army Surplus weather balloons to his jeep while he inflated them all with helium and tied them to his lawn chair. His goal was supposedly try to hover 30 ft. above his house until he was ready to come down
rolleyes. He brought a pellet gun to shoot balloons to decend and a 6 pack of Miller Light. Well needless to say he shot into the atmosphere and instead of floating 30 feet above the ground and he eventually leveld off at 16,000 feet where he stayed freezing for 14 hours. He thought that at that altitude if he risked shooting a balloon it would unbalance the load and make things worse. Eventually he floated into the main approach corridor for LAX Airport where a Pan Am pilot was reported radioing in to the tower"We just passed a guy on a lawn chair with a gun!"LOL... Rescue choppers followed him out to sea where they eventually plucked him out of the water and arrested him for invading LAX airspace. That is freaking great... I would love to hear any comments on this. Truthfully... I just might be crazy enough to try something like this...
