Up Up And Away In My Beautiful Balloon

This 4th of July weekend 2008 Kent Couch created a sensation by sailing 200 miles across Oregon in a lawn chair rigged with helium balloons. He said he was inspired after watching a story about Larry Walters who on July 2nd 1982 reached 16,000 feet in a lawn chair with 41 Helium balloons attached. He finally landed an hour and a half later on a rooftop in Long Beach California. This is the actual clip and true story of Larry Walters miraculous flight.
This is from the TV series Mostly True Stories Urban Legends Revealed which is available on DVD by emailing twothumbsupdvd@aol.com or you can visit our Amazon site http://www.amazon.com/shops/twothumbsupdvd

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[starrfisher]

i would have installed a seatbelt.

[Wykletypl]

Like they say: 'The world needs dreamers to give it a soul... And realists to keep it alive'.

[bniblet]

Cool video and all, but now I'm all curious what the hell is the story about the traveling couple surprised at dinner???

[TheRct3freak]

this guy is my fucking hero.

[donnyromo]

You call him Larry. I'm  going to call him The Dude.

[imhere4videos]

"Lets call him Larry..."

[Puertoricanlegacy]

That that's where Up received it's inspiration.

[highskyeagle]

Ha, so my grandma wasn't crazy, a gun did fall on her head out of "no where".

[Luxai]

@rocknrollzman Damn it noob, of COURSE it's fake. This video shows what happened, it's not a recording of the ACTUAL flight. You really think they'd send someone up there risking his life just to illustrate?

[Luxai]

Rofl, those americans...