How many weather balloons would I need to go about 200 feet? What equipment? How to do this? Any tips you have in mind? Ballast? Sandwiches? Avoiding powerlines?
2007-01-14 14:32:01 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
Depends on how much you weigh. The guy who most prominently did it used an alluminum lawn chair and several dozen balloons.(45) He used a BB gun to break baloons to come down. The best way to avoid powerlines is either to never leave the ground or do it where there arn't any and there is no wind.
Google balloon lawn chair for a bunch of references.
Why be second to do it?
2007-01-14 14:43:55 · answer #1 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can vouch for the lawm chair story. A good friend of mine was a chief controller for FAA in Los Angeles when it happened. The guy just showed up in the traffic pattern for Long Beach International. The end of the story is equally comical. He was successful in controlling his altitude with the BB gun and landed on a city street in Long Beach, where he was promptly arrested. Now comes the problem. There is no law in Southern California prohibiting lawn chairs and no ordinances could be found that he had broken, so they had to turn him loose. Then the feds stepped in because he surely must have broken some FAA rules, right? Well, the best they could have done was revoke his lawn chair pilots license, so everyone eventually just went away. Except for the guy in Long Beach, who is probably still laughing.
2007-01-14 14:53:22 · answer #2 · answered by ZORCH 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
about 45- but realize that you cannot accurately control your height
In 1983 Larry Walters of L.A. tied 45 four foot diameter weather alloons to a lawn chair, filled them with Helium, armed himself with a pellet gun, for busting some to settle down, and released his anchor cord, with a goal of ascending about 30 feet. He promptly rose to 16,000 feet, floated several miles through LAX airspace, disrupting flights, and finally got brave enough to shoot some of his ballons about 14 hours later, settling down into some power lines and blacking out a Long beach neighbourhood
2007-01-14 14:49:20 · answer #3 · answered by potbellyhairyfoot 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you have no idea how dangerous this is. read up on lighter than air ships just to get an idea of the complexity of it all. at 16000 feet (re: that previous answer) i'm surpised that guy could breathe and didn't freeze into a solid block of ice.
2007-01-14 17:18:19 · answer #4 · answered by emkay4597 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eric the midget will never fly.
2007-01-14 14:40:50 · answer #5 · answered by wsnealis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all the answers are on the show mythbusters...good luck
2007-01-14 14:36:48 · answer #6 · answered by pundragonrebel 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
good luck wit that..
2007-01-14 14:39:22 · answer #7 · answered by someone_else 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dude, dont even go there.
2007-01-14 14:35:28 · answer #8 · answered by Dovahkiin 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋