Bad Weather Brings Down Lawn Chair Balloonists

Kent Couch and Fareed Lafta had their dreams of setting a world's record for the longest two-man cluster balloon flight dashed by bad weather and not kids with bb guns as you might expect. The men tied 350 balloons to lawn chairs and planned on flying from Bend, Oregon to Montana. The pair flew for about 30 minutes before having to land. From the article: "A post at the Facebook page for the project said wind had turned the balloonists around and pushed them back toward the town of Prineville, Oregon, and that thunderstorms heading toward the area were 'simply too much' for the balloons."

Comments

Re:What *NOT* to do....

[Anonymous Coward]

People who do this kind of stuff make me wonder whether or not evolution has even started happening yet.

They had parachutes, so to me it seems no more dangerous than sky diving.

Very patriotic of them to choose the colors

[SmallFurryCreature]

Very patriotic of them to choose to design their balloons to look like the flag of the greatest country on earth. The Dutch people salute them!

Lucky for them the winds weren't severe of them to give tribute to the French as well.

Re:Very patriotic of them to choose the colors

[ColdWetDog]

Hint: They are raising funds for children orphaned by a war in what country that is not the Netherlands?

A country full of people that wouldn't know a joke if they had to vote for it in a presidential election.

Re:Just another day in Oregon

[starworks5]

Clearly you missed the MOST important part of living in oregon, Are you a raw food gluten free vegan bicyclist, or are you a carbon neutral organic polyculture pot farmer?

Re:What *NOT* to do....

[ColdWetDog]

You're using an episode of McGyver to support a technical point?

Tell me, did you ever try and find the phone number for the A-team when you were younger?