A childhood dream was realized in San Pedro, Ca. back in the summer of '82 when Larry Walters attached 42 weather balloons to a Sears lawnchair & sailed away into history & fame.

With water jugs as a ballast & a bottle of soda, he would float lazily a few hundred feet in the air, & landing would be as easy as shooting out some of the balloons with a pellet gun.

But when the first of two tethers which attached the lawnchair to a friend's bumper was cut, the plan went terribly awry..