Still Adventure Out There

[Pete]

There is still adventure out there.

"Helium balloons lift aviator Jonathan Trappe Up for transatlantic trip"

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...-transatlantic

"An American aviator has begun the first attempt to cross the Atlantic suspended by hundreds of coloured balloons. Jonathan Trappe took off from Caribou, Maine, on Thursday morning as his capsule was lifted by 370 helium-filled balloons in heavy fog and he headed east from the US.........."

[mojaveman]

About 20 years ago some guy here in California did something like that but not so sophisticated. He tied his ballons to a lawn chair and after he ascended to a dangerously high altitude he began shooting the ballons with a CO2 pellet pistol.

If I remember correctly the Federal Aviation Administration was waiting for him when he got on the ground.