Ballooning into the Sky
Here's some adventure for you! Cluster Ballooning. I got seriously tickled when I read the following:
"The most famous cluster balloon flight took place in 1982. Larry Walters, with no prior ballooning experience, attached 42 helium weather balloons to a lawnchair, intending to go up a few hundred feet, but instead soaring to 16,000. Surprisingly, Walters survived his flight. However, both before and since Walters' adventure, experienced balloonists have experimented with helium balloon clusters, some rising to even greater heights. "
This website is fascinating. John Ninomiya gives us a detailed and fascinating look at how he came to be the only Cluster Balloon pilot practicing in America today.
Right now John Ninomiya is promoting his "States of Enlightenment" - an ongoing multi-year performance project involving helium cluster balloon flights in all fifty states of the U.S.
How, you may wonder, did I get to THAT webpage?!
It all started with an e-mail from www.colarodo.com which comes to me because I subscribe to their online newsletter. In the newsletter this time was a link to Colorado Balloon Classic, where John Ninomiya is planning to do his Colorado flight.
Here's some adventure for you! Cluster Ballooning. I got seriously tickled when I read the following:
"The most famous cluster balloon flight took place in 1982. Larry Walters, with no prior ballooning experience, attached 42 helium weather balloons to a lawnchair, intending to go up a few hundred feet, but instead soaring to 16,000. Surprisingly, Walters survived his flight. However, both before and since Walters' adventure, experienced balloonists have experimented with helium balloon clusters, some rising to even greater heights. "
This website is fascinating. John Ninomiya gives us a detailed and fascinating look at how he came to be the only Cluster Balloon pilot practicing in America today.
Right now John Ninomiya is promoting his "States of Enlightenment" - an ongoing multi-year performance project involving helium cluster balloon flights in all fifty states of the U.S.
How, you may wonder, did I get to THAT webpage?!
It all started with an e-mail from www.colarodo.com which comes to me because I subscribe to their online newsletter. In the newsletter this time was a link to Colorado Balloon Classic, where John Ninomiya is planning to do his Colorado flight.