NPR: Linkfest: The Flying Lawn Chair

Linkfest: The Flying Lawn Chair

You can file this under Dangerous, Expensive, Crazy and Ridiculous, but I'm going to log it as Another Thing I'm Itching to Do.

Kent Couch got up off his in Bend, Ore., flying more than 200 miles to Idaho in a lawn chair lofted by giant balloons. The technology for lawn chair flying has evolved since Larry Walters took to the skies in 1982, in a Sears patio chair towed by weather balloons. It's probably safe enough now that I could convince my family to let me go.

I'll tell them it's for the BPP's Most.

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Laura Conaway

7:02 AM ET | 07- 7-2008 | permalink

Comments

Laura--about that balloon flying? Um, no.

Sent by Sarah Goodyear | 7:41 AM ET | 07-07-2008

Every boy's dream? Flying a balloon-powered lawn chair? Silly me ... always thought it had something to do with anything with motor and could shoot flames.

Sent by Hollis | 2:56 PM ET | 07-07-2008

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