Balloon Flight
Jul 9 2008, Gagandeep

Kent Couch, apparently, does not think very highly of all the normal means of transportation. So what he did was tied up a lawn chair with over 150 giant party balloons and made over 235 miles over Oregon and Idaho. His marathon flight took him up...

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