Kent Couch and Fareed Lafta were lifted by 350 balloons. July 14, 2012— -- An Oregon gas station owner and his Iraqi co-pilot who lifted into flight today on two lawn chairs tethered to 350 ...

BEND, Ore. (AP) — Hours into their lawn-chair balloon flight, two men made a hard landing after they were hit by hail and snow as thunderstorms swept into central Oregon. But their back-yard aircraft ...

“A man can’t just sit around,” Larry Walters explained to a reporter when asked what made him decide to take a patio chair aloft. On July 2, 1982, Los Angeles truck driver Larry Walters launched his ...

ALBERTA, Canada -- A man was detained by police over the weekend after he was spotted soaring over Calgary in a lawn chair tied to helium balloons in an alleged stunt to promote his company. (WARNING: ...

Dan Boria was trying to advertise for a cleaning company. — -- It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s a man in a lawn chair flying over Canada. A Canadian man attached giant helium-filled balloons ...

Larry Walters was a regular guy who, like most mortals, dreamed of flying – if possible, without getting on a plane. Unlike mere mortals, Larry got to fulfill his dream, and he did so by literally ...

CALGARY (WTNH) – A Canadian man was arrested Sunday for tying balloons to a lawn chair and taking to the skies. Police in Calgary tell ABC News that 26-year-old Daniel Bora attached 150 giant ...

Attached to nearly 100 helium-filled balloons, Tom Morgan, of Bristol, England, lifted off in a lawn chair into the skies above South Africa last week, soaring to nearly an altitude of 8,000 feet.

_ Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch took off today in a third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho. Couch ...

BEND, Ore. (AP) -- An Oregon gas station owner is preparing to fly aboard a pair of lawn chairs suspended from helium-filled party balloons across Oregon and Idaho and into Montana with an Iraqi ...

CALGARY (WTNH)– A Canadian man was arrested Sunday for tying balloons to a lawn chair and taking to the skies. Police in Calgary told ABC News that 26-year-old Daniel Bora attached 150 giant ...