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07-10-2007, 06:56 AM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Portland, OR
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Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
Oregon man experiences air travel in lawn chair
Last weekend, Bend gas station owner Kent Couch fulfilled his dream and traveled by lawn chair, suspended from 105 balloons, across Oregon.
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07-10-2007, 07:28 AM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Lakeside, Montana
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Re: Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
There is a pretty cute movie out about a guy in Australia that does this. It's called "Danny Deck Chair" or something like that. I think it would be fun to try as long as you had a good parachute.
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07-10-2007, 07:36 AM
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Tuna!
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Portland, Or
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Re: Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
He's got some huge ones, I'll give him that 
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07-10-2007, 07:36 AM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Tualatin,Oregon
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Re: Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
Part of me wants to call the guys "nuts" that try this, but I really admire them. They truly have the guts to try something that has to be a thrill and an experience they will forever remember.
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07-10-2007, 01:08 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Halfway between the Boondocks & Timbucktoo
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Re: Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
Reading that, I thought how nutty, why wouldn't he just get a hot air balloon...
But then I realized it's different.
A hot air balloon has a burner and it makes a heck of a racket. Floating under those balloons with virtually no noise at all, no wind, no directional control, except up and down...
Gives me chills. Hats off to Mr. Couch! 
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07-10-2007, 02:49 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Newberg, OR
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Re: Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
Interesting things happen to balloons as they rise...
First the air becomes thinner (less air pressure), secondly the air becomes colder, and thirdly the air becomes less dense. Because of these changes to the air, a balloon will begin to get larger as the balloon rises. Eventually the balloon will get so big that it will burst. If a special helium balloon could be made to expand enough and not burst, it could float all the way up into outer space.
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07-10-2007, 02:53 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Newberg, OR
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Re: Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
this guy is my new hero.
imagine the fuel we could save...and the travel expenses...if we could fly by wind and balloon!
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07-10-2007, 04:33 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Oregon City
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Re: Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
I've got a lot of respect for this guy. Hats off to anyone who has the courage to think outside the box!
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07-10-2007, 05:12 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: clark county
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Re: Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
Wasnt there a kid who tried that a while back? I thought he had a pellet gun with him so he could shoot down a few balloons at a time to bring him down? Maybe I was dreaming.
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07-10-2007, 05:23 PM
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The Mods Must Be Crazy!
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Re: Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
Quote:
Originally Posted by yankemnbankem
Wasnt there a kid who tried that a while back? I thought he had a pellet gun with him so he could shoot down a few balloons at a time to bring him down? Maybe I was dreaming.
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Yep.
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07-10-2007, 05:24 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Jan 2007
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Re: Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
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Originally Posted by The Chub
He's got some huge ones, I'll give him that |
ill say about 4 foot around
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07-10-2007, 06:30 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Mayberry
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Re: Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
You will get fined from the FCC if you get caught I think. I seen them do this on myth busters, myth confirmed.
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07-10-2007, 06:33 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Re: Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Chub
He's got some huge ones, I'll give him that |
Yep gotta pack em around in a wheelbarrow... 
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07-10-2007, 06:37 PM
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The Mods Must Be Crazy!
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Re: Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
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Originally Posted by fishkisser
Yep gotta pack em around in a wheelbarrow... |
Balloons float, so that's not needed.
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07-10-2007, 08:26 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Nov 2005
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Re: Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
That's pretty cool
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07-11-2007, 07:34 AM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: St Helens, OR
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Re: Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
future Darwin Award Candidate...
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07-11-2007, 08:16 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Portland, OR
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Re: Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
Pretty neat until a bunch of rescuers have to fish him down from some high tension lines. Sounds like he was quite prepared, but this is just asking for it.
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07-11-2007, 08:49 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: woodstock
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Re: Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
Just because you can, does not mean you should.:grin:
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07-11-2007, 01:19 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Re: Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
Quote:
Originally Posted by freespool
Just because you can, does not mean you should.:grin:
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A yeah................ 
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07-12-2007, 10:17 AM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Pocatello, ID
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Re: Balloons + lawn chair = fun flight
I've been around a lot of balloons (hot air and helium), side benefit of growing up in Albuquerque and drinkin' beer with the son of one of the pilots of the first successful trans-Pacific flight. There are one man hot air rigs, you are in a harness with a couple of tanks of propane and a burner above your head. Always thought those guys were nuts, and then this guy comes along. Yikes. Like any other flying things can and do go wrong in a BIG hurry, guess that's what the parachute is for. Nuts, nuts, nuts, nuts!!!!!!!
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