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trivia about flying on helium balloons:

"In 1982, Larry Walters flew across Los Angeles in a lawn chair lifted by weather balloons, eventually reaching several miles in altitude. After passing through LAX airspace, he descended by shooting some of the balloons with a pellet gun."

In Brazil, a priest doing a gimmick to raise some funds to his church went on flying with helium balloons. He was drifted to the ocean by the wind and didn't know how to return. He did took a phone and a GPS device. But he didn't know how to use the GPS he took to tell people his location. He died.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelir_Ant%C3%B4nio_de_Carli




There's also the wonderful Australian romantic comedy film Danny Deckchair. Danny flies away from his problems in a deckchair-balloon aircraft.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337960/


> "In 1982, Larry Walters flew across Los Angeles in a lawn chair lifted by weather balloons..."

I watched an old episode of MythBusters last night on YouTube where they tested exactly that, it was Season 1 Episode 3 - if anyone is interested.




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