Oregon man completes flight in lawn chair
China Daily | Updated: 2008-07-07 07:22
Kent Couch lifts off from his gas station in Bend, Oregon, in his lawn chair rigged with more than 150 giant party balloons, on Saturday. AP |
Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 322 km across the Oregon desert on Saturday, landing in a field in Idaho.
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