Balloons and a Chair: The Only Way to Fly (to France)

[Gigaguy64]

This man....he is awesome.

That is really cool.

 

[T'vin]

Pure awesome.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Ewwwww..

Why would anyone want to go to France?


Other than to invade it of course.

Invasion by means of balloons and chair, the silent killers.

 

[Charli]

He took off near where I live.

I salute him. He's right, who didn't want that sad helium-filled piece of shiny plastic that your mum bought when you whined enough, to fly you up. You know you jumped and tried it.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Well, congrats to the guy. Had a dream and executed it to success. What's more of an achievement is that someone got a Darwin award for doing something very similar.

This is what I was thinking about. If he had failed and through some tragic mistake fallen to his death, I bet most of the people in this article would be mocking him for trying such a foolish thing. Can;t say I wouldn't be thinking the same thing myself. Though that's probably just because of the sheer implausibility of this thing. As stated in the article, the idea of floating through the sky in a chair with balloons has often been portrayed in many things across cultures, ranging from books, movies, to even video games. It is something you would associate with pure fantasy. And when somebody tries to make fantasy into reality, you mock them for it because it seems like a futile thing to do. But then when you actually go and do what was considered impossible, it becomes something very impressive and commendable.

 

[MasterSqueak]

Wow...uh...good on him I guess.

My head hurts.

 

[Tartarga]

That is just awesome. This guy has done something the rest of us could only dream of doing.

 

[Sion_Barzahd]

All i can think now is 'i want to do it' I'd love to fly off on an office chair, thats just epic!

 

[RMcD94]

Why did he not record it?

 

[Baron Von Evil Satan]

The next step? A couch. Then it will eventually culminate into the scenario from "Up". Only with out the whole life journey quest thing (unless you're into that)... and the little boy... that'd just be creepy...

 

[Logic 0]

This information shall prove usefull in my plans to fly to vancouver on a toilet and ballons.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Wait, isn't that illegal?

Well judging by how he did that test flight I guess it's not.

But that's really a motivating story.

 

[Brisingr]

looks like a lot of fun

 

[Sparrow]

From Kent? How did I not hear about this?

 

[Jeronus]

It is only a matter of time before the terrorist try to bomb us in balloon chairs.

 

[-Torchedini-]

I'm just curious as to how he's going to change the direction of his flight if the wind changes...

Not all the wind goes in one direction.

It goes in layers.


High
-----------------
This air goes south
-----------------
This air goes north
-----------------
low


So simply put its a thing of altitude

 

[-Torchedini-]

Well, congrats to the guy. Had a dream and executed it to success. What's more of an achievement is that someone got a Darwin award for doing something very similar.

This is what I was thinking about. If he had failed and through some tragic mistake fallen to his death, I bet most of the people in this article would be mocking him for trying such a foolish thing. Can;t say I wouldn't be thinking the same thing myself. Though that's probably just because of the sheer implausibility of this thing. As stated in the article, the idea of floating through the sky in a chair with balloons has often been portrayed in many things across cultures, ranging from books, movies, to even video games. It is something you would associate with pure fantasy. And when somebody tries to make fantasy into reality, you mock them for it because it seems like a futile thing to do. But then when you actually go and do what was considered impossible, it becomes something very impressive and commendable.

I guess he took a parachute with him to compensate for that. But then do you have enough altitude to have time to deploy your parachute.