Lawn Chair Larry Documentary

Httpforatv20090310The_Darwin_Awards_Wendy_NorthcuttDarwin Awards creator Wendy Northcutt tells the story of Lawn Chair Larry one.

Lawn chair larry documentary. However after flying for 45 minutes he eventually got up the courage to shoot out some of the balloons. But had he tied the balloons to a lawn chair. Larry Walters was fearful that if he popped the balloons he would become unbalanced and fall out of the chair.

Acending in a lawn chair with weather balloons. Coyote-style plan and succeeded. However powered by 45 helium-filled 4-foot radius weather balloons he ascended to nearly 16000 feet slowly drifting toward the Pacific Ocean.

This film examines Larry Walters 1982 flight over Southern California in a lawn chair. Attach the 42 helium weather balloons he had purchased at an Army Navy store to his trusty aluminum lawn chair. The flight was the realization of a 25 year childhood dream and was.

Poppy seeds cause you to fail a drug test. On July 2 1982 Vietnam veteran and truck driver Larry Walters of California set out to fulfill his life-long dream of flying. Well maybe Up could have been based on a true story.

The plan was simple. After ascending to a height of 75 feet the passenger safely descended by shooting out some of the balloons with. After strapping on some water jugs for stability he packed a.

In the early 1980s Larry Walters was a truck driver from the Los Angeles neighborhood of San Pedro. The making of The Lawnchair Pilot AKA Larrys Lawnchair - a feature length documentary telling the true story of Larry Walters who in 1982 attached 42 helium filled weather balloons to a lawn chair and flew 16000 ft over Los Angeles. With Jamie Hyneman Adam Savage Heather Joseph-Witham Mark Barry.