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On July 2, 1982, Larry Walters (April 19, 1949 – October 6, 1993) made a 45-minute flight in a homemade aerostat made of an ordinary lawn chair and 42 helium-filled weather balloons. [2] The aircraft rose to an altitude of about 16,000 feet (4,900 m), drifted from the point of liftoff in San Pedro, California , and entered controlled airspace ...
In the Lawnchair Larry flight, Larry Walters flew a lawn chair by means of weather balloons, and he descended safely by means of an air gun. Confirmed Adam Savage went up in the MythBusters' rig, which was a lawn chair with 16 plastic weather balloons attached, and went up to the maximum height that could be obtained with the safety ropes ...
Larry was not rescued by a helicopter, but rather came down on his own intent while possibly trying to land in an open field. Larry's chair was a piece of patio furniture, not a folding lawn chair. Larry gave the patio furniture away to a neighborhood kid, later regretting this generosity when the Smithsonian asked to place the chair in its ...
Larry Walters' flight, using a garden chair and helium balloons, is celebrated in a stage musical.
July 2 – Larry Walters, a.k.a. Lawnchair Larry, flies 16,000 feet above Long Beach, California, in a lawn chair with weather balloons attached. July 9 – Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 146 on board and eight on the ground.
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In the Lawnchair Larry flight, Larry Walters, without any prior ballooning experience, attached 43 helium-filled weather balloons to a lawn chair and lifted off in 1982. In defending against charges later filed against him by the FAA, he stated that he intended to rise just a few hundred feet (about 100 metres), but underestimated helium's ...
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