Saturday, July 5th, 2008
Gas station owner Kent Couch has realized his dream of flying a lawn chair rigged with more than 150 helium-filled party balloons across the Oregon high desert to Idaho.Read the full story
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Monday, July 9th, 2007
Couch, 47, is the latest American to emulate Larry Walters - who in 1982 rose three miles above Los Angeles in a lawn chair lifted by balloons. Walters surprised an airline pilot, who radioed the control tower that he had just passed a guy in a lawn chair with a ...
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