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Thread #57204   Message #898440
Posted By: Metchosin
25-Feb-03 - 01:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: Flying By the Seat of Your Pants
Subject: BS: Flying By the Seat of Your Pants
How's the weather up there Larry??? Interesting tidbit on the new just now regarding a chap from LA who attached 60 weather balloons to a lawn chair, seated himself in it, cut the tether and rose to 16,00 feet. Apparently he disrupted air traffic and became a menace to air traffic. After 14 hours and oxygen depravation started to set in, he popped some of his balloons and landed safely, where he was promptly arrested. Wow! Got to be a song in this somewhere.