Anyone remember the guy who built a lawn chair airship and went up 16,000 feet?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

On July 2, 1982, Larry Walters attached 41 helium balloons to a lawn chair in San Pedro, California and reached a height of 16,000 feet. Several airline pilots reported seeing a guy in a lawn chair sailing into the Long Beach Airport controlled flight path. Amazingly he survived the flight and was immediately arrested when he landed. When asked by a member of the press why he’d done it, he answered “a man just can’t sit around”.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. Was that cool or what.

[pinboy3niner]

2. I remember

I was working at NTSB HQ at the time.

[talkingmime]

3. Yes, I do remember that. He was nucking futs!