In 1982, a California truck driver named Larry Walters famously fulfilled his lifelong dream of flying by attaching 42 helium-filled weather balloons to a lawn chair. Dubbed "Lawnchair Larry," he planned to float a few hundred feet over Los Angeles, but the tethers snapped unexpectedly, sending him soaring to an altitude of 16,000 feet. His unplanned flight carried him into the controlled airspace near Los Angeles International Airport, shocking commercial pilots who reported seeing a man in a l
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In 1982, a California truck driver named Larry Walters famously fulfilled his lifelong dream of flying by attaching 42 helium-filled weather balloons to a lawn chair. ⁠ ⁠ Dubbed “Lawnchair Larry,” he planned to float a few hundred feet over Los Angeles, but the tethers snapped unexpectedly, sending him soaring to an altitude of 16,000 feet. ⁠ ⁠ His unplanned flight carried him into the controlled airspace near Los Angeles International Airport, shocking commercial pilots who reported seeing a ma
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In July 1982, 33-year-old former truck driver Larry Walters attached 42 weather balloons to a lawn chair and soared more than 16,000 feet into the air, eventually drifting into Los Angeles International Airport's airspace. | PBH2
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Larry Walters was a California truck driver who achieved accidental fame in 1982 by flying nearly 15,000 feet into the sky using a lawn chair attached to 45 helium-filled weather balloons. Armed with a BB gun, sandwiches, and a dream of flight, Walters intended to hover gently over his neighborhood but instead drifted into controlled airspace near Los Angeles International Airport, alarming commercial pilots and air traffic controllers. After 45 minutes aloft, he began popping balloons to descen
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