Flying Home made stuff!!

Gday,
I was inspired by the Larry Walters, who did the ballooning on July 2nd, 1982 with 45 helium filled balloons. He took along water, a parachute and a portable CB radio to alert air traffic to his presence. I wanted to do something like him from last 9 years with an aim in my mind to help our society. I have not any professional training in flying but I always dreamed to fly in blue sky. I studied by myself on Google and managed everything which was required for flying.

On Nov 14th, 2009, crew stated preparation in an open ground around midnight. All my friends and family members were encouraging me and were helping me to create my homemade aircraft. On Nov 15th 2009, everything was ready by 8.00 am. It was really cold with a dense fog all over the ground. Wind speed was about 13 km/h. I had planned to fly around 8.30 am but it was delayed due to bad weather. I was waiting for the clear weather with good visibility. I was too desperate to fly. Every min was passing like an hour. I was surrounded by the village peoples and news channels crew. All villagers were wondered to see huge balloons. I had chat with them. They had also arranged tea and cookies for us. By passing time, sky was going to clear enough. I again checked gas level and other arrangements. Two 16 ft. balloons were needed to refill again to carry enough weight. Around 12.00 noon, weather was clear enough but wind speed was still around 8-10 km/h. At last, I decided to fly with the current conditions.

On Nov 15th, 2009 I took flight on homemade stuff. That consist a chair which I took from my dads office with five PVC made hydrogen filled balloons attached with a rope, which keep them straight up length wise. It was about 90 feet. I was using different sizes of balloons, all of them were able to carry different amount of weight. Two 16 feet balloons, two 14 feet balloons and one 12 feet balloon were able to pick up my weight, parachute, chair, GPS, CB radio, ropes, water bottles etc., in short all necessary equipments required for flying. I was sitting on the chair. Crew took me to the other end of the ground to save me from the close power cables. They had loosened the rope with big cheer to let me fly. After waiting such a long, I was flying in the sky. That was my life time achievement.

I had no control on the directions and was flying uncontrollable with the wind. All I could do was to use the gas valves attached with the balloons to decrease altitude. I checked altitude meter at 500 m of height. I was going upward slowly. I relaxed for a while. Everything under and above my chair was beautiful. I have no words to express by feelings. I tried to check heading direction but failed because my chair was moving slowly anti clock wise. I rose up to an altitude of 1200 meters (around 3937 feet). Here, I decided to decrease the altitude to pull the cable which can open the gas valve. I was finding difficult to open the gas valve because the cables were twisted around the ropes and made it harder to pull. I opened one gas valve to reduce the speed. I was going down slowly. After few minutes, I had an accident. I noticed that something comes off from the balloon. I turned off the gas valve. I took a while to know that the hook used to tie up the rope with balloon comes off because ropes get stretched while revolving. Gas started leaking due to the open space. I closed the gas valve and read altitude. It was less than 200m. I could not take the risk of jumping from the chair. I was worried that parachute may not deploy at this height. I saw people running towards my direction. I dropped 200 ft long rope towards ground for the people on ground to hold. I didnt want wind to drag me to another place. I had passed the power cables and hit the ground during landing. Wind dragged me towards the gate of one of the villager house. I hit the gate and hold it tightly until the villagers came to help. Someone tied up the rope with the tree. All the surrounding people helped me to manage everything after landing. I was amazed to see that one of the chair legs was broken and another one was bending towards one side. Emergency landing was due to accident but I had some scratches instead of serious injury. THANK GOD.

I am really thankful to my family members, friends and close ones, who helped me a lot to turn my dream into reality. I wanted to collect and donate money through this adventure for HIV/AIDS patients. I wish to do something new again to help HIV/AIDS patients.

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[hunterpaynefull1]

how the hell is he going 2 get down???

[channellme]

hi mate just check the description, please.

it has al the information,

anyway balloons are fitted with gas valves to come down.

Thankyou

[kblp]

was it 12 o clock when he did this?

[applesweeter]

Dear All,

I have some questions about psychology:

(1) Why do we love flying?

(2) Why do we like to fly on a balloon chair?

(3) What will be the joy to fly on an balloon chair comapring with flying on a commercial jet?

(4) Why do we want to take risk in the sky?

THANK YOU IN ADAVNCE for your creative ideas and brainstorm!!! :)

[wilatemodel]

"Thank You,..Come Again".......

[gagsbajwa]

@Playcorereview rab da naa le yaara

[Medborgare90]

lol bye bye see you never moreeeeeeee x)

[gangulyworld]

I am from Ahmedabad, Gujarat- India and age 26. I want to do the same experience as well as experiment. I think it is easy and should be made easier even for all public for local transportation. This is a new generation vehicle and so, there should be more experiments with this. Many people today can change the basic transportation systems - roadways & railways. This is our new generation air ways. personal Airways! contact me: focusadvertisements (at) gmail (dot) com

[gangulyworld]

THE OWNERS OF THIS VIDEO / FLYERS PLEASE CONTACT ME AS I WANT TO FLY THIS WAY. focusadvertisements (at) gmail (dot) co m

[surangiable]

naneedj.info I love sports and spending time with my family

[davetileguy]

why do they all have towels on their head? is it good luck?

[yourpalcliffy]

no vids for the return trip... :(