Lawn Chair Larry: The Truck Driver Who Flew 16,000 Feet on a Garden Chair and 42 Balloons

The Man Who Had to Fly On the morning of 2 July 1982, a 33-year-old Los Angeles truck driver named Larry Walters strapped himself into an aluminium garden chair, attached 42 helium-filled weather balloons to it, packed a pellet gun, two litres of Coca-Cola , a six-pack of Miller Lite, some sandwiches, a CB radio, and a parachute, and floated off into the sky above California . He had planned to drift gently about 100 feet above his neighbourhood, enjoy the view, pop a few balloons with his...