Balloon Man Spends $6,000 To Fly 235 Miles Using 150 Helium-Filled Balloons

Last Updated: July 06, 2008

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Balloon Man Spends $6,000 To Fly 235 Miles Using 150 Helium-Filled Balloons.

Talk about the high cost of travel. This weekend, Kent Couch took off from his hometown of Bend, Oregon in a green lawn chair hooked up to 150 helium balloons. His mission - to fly out of the state of Oregon.

Couch also carried on his flight a GPS satellite tracking device and his trusty Red Ryder BB gun and a blowgun equipped with steel darts. Meal service on this flight was boiled eggs, beef jerky and chocolate.

His special lawn-type chair weighed about 400 pounds. Couch and his parachute (yes, parachute) weighed about 200 pounds. Each one of his 150 balloons gave him about four pounds of lift. Each latex balloon was about five feet in diameter.

Couch took off on Saturday, July 5, and nine hours later flying at a speed of about 20-miles-per hour landed in McCall, Idaho, about 230 miles east of Bend.

Now, for the rest of the story. The reason for the Red Ryder BB gun and the blowgun was to keep him from rising to 30,000 feet. Once he reached a certain altitude, he would shoot a balloon with one of the guns. To land, he had to pop even more balloons.

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