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Old July 13th 07, 10:07 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Gold Distance, or Darwin award?

On Jul 12, 12:08 pm, wrote:
On Jul 11, 3:38 pm, "Kloudy via AviationKB.com" u33403@uwe wrote:

Matt Herron Jr. wrote:
Yet another lawn chair flight: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/...n3040131.shtml
Looks like he covered over 300km.
Shall we petition to have Judy give honorary gold distance award? I would love to get that GPS trace...


Matt Jr.


Apparently there is a community of 'em. I might like to try it sometime.
Hafta admit they're easier to see than an ASW-20 head-on. ; )


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Maybe I'm nuts, but way back when Larry What's-his-name did it, and
all my associates were ranting about what a lunatic he was (okay, not
smart or sane to do it in LA airspace) I was secretly thinking "Hmmm,
with a little better equipement set up, and away from major air
traffic, that doesn't sound all that crazy". How much crazier than
flying a hot air ballon is flying a cluster of helium balloons? Not
much, to my way of thinking. At least you're not carrying around a
furnace and enough fuel to blow you to kingdom come.


Larry Walters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters