In what police aren’t describing (but I definitely am) as a “Classic Up situation,” 26-year-old Daniel Boria tethered 110 giant balloons to his lawn chair until he flew away. Despite turning life into ...

BEND, Ore. – Last weekend, Kent Couch settled down in his lawn chair with some snacks — and a parachute. Attached to his lawn chair were 105 large helium balloons. Destination: Idaho. With instruments ...

They had to end flight after balloons burst and wind and storms rolled in Variable wind, thunderstorms and the loss of 35 helium-filled balloons within a few hours of liftoff put an end to the flight ...

Hours into their lawn-chair balloon flight, two men made a hard landing after they were hit by hail and snow as thunderstorms swept into central Oregon. But their back-yard aircraft floated away. Kent ...

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it was two flying lawn chairs strapped to 350 helium balloons! In a soaring feat reminiscent of a certain Disney movie, a gas station owner and an Iraqi adventurer lifted ...

McCALL, IDAHO - One wonders what the scattering horses thought as Kent Couch descended from the sky in his lawn chair into their pasture outside of Cambridge on Saturday. Certainly the two-legged ...

SANFORD, N.C., April 13 (UPI) -- A North Carolina man traveled about 50 miles across the state during his trip in a chair attached to about 40 helium balloons. Jonathan Trappe, a member of the Wings ...

On July 5, Boria, spent $12,000 on helium and filled up 120 large party balloons, attached them to his $20 lawn chair and took off into the sky, reminiscent of the Pixar hit Up. “I was sitting in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - A Canadian man who parachuted from a flying lawn chair powered by helium balloons was facing police ...

BEND, Ore. — An Oregon gas station owner and an Iraqi adventurer trying to fly from Central Oregon to Montana in tandem lawn chairs suspended from party balloons made a hard landing Saturday after ...