Larry Walters
Aviator
July 2, 1982: Up, Up and Away in 42 Balloons...him. Eventually, screwing up his courage, Walters shot out several balloons. He began a slow descent but dropped the pistol before he could shoot out any more. Ninety minutes after liftoff from San Pedro, he was safely back on terra firma,... In this article: Larry Walters, Helium, Darwin Awards, FAA, Danny Deckchair, San Pedro, Sears, Suicide, and Sandwich |
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L.A. Times - Movie News | June 01, 2009
'Up,' up and away go cluster balloonists
...de Carli took off from the coastal city of Paranagua and was never heard from again. The most famous cluster balloonist is Larry Walters, the Studio City native who in 1982 tied 42 weather balloons to a Sears lawn chair and flew from San...
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L.A. Times - L.A. Now | October 15, 2009
Case of boy trapped in balloon aircraft recalls man who flew around L.A. in lawn chair
...draped over power lines, blacking out a Long Beach neighborhood for 20 minutes. The stunt earned Walters a $1,500 fine from the FAA, the top prize from the Bonehead Club of Dallas, the altitude record for gas-filled clustered balloons...
In this article: Helium, Federal Aviation Administration, Long Beach, The Tonight Show, Late Night with David Letterman, San Pedro, and New York
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The Balloonatics
...has committed suicide at the age of 44. Walters died Oct. 6 after hiking to a remote spot in Angeles National Forest and shooting himself in the heart, his mother, Hazel Dunham, revealed Monday. She said relatives knew of no motive for the...
In this article: Suicide, Helium, Kent Couch, Long Beach, and New York
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Larry Walters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... in a power line, causing a blackout in a Long Beach neighborhood for 20 minutes. ... In an episode of Urban Legends Larry Walters flight is shown as one of three, ...
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Larry did not pass near LAX, but rather Long Beach airport, where TWA and Delta ... Larry came down in a residential area north-east of Long Beach airport. ...
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snopes.com: Up, Up, and Away!
Did Larry Walters soar above Los Angeles in a lawn chair attached to helium weather ... and Walters quickly found himself drifting 16,000 feet above Long Beach. ...
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In 1982, Larry Walters was a truck driver living in North Hollywood, California. ... gentle southern drift directly into the approach corridor for the Long Beach (Ca. ...
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"Lawn Chair Pilot"
From San Pedro, Walters and his balloons began to drift over Long Beach, and ... The flight of Larry Walters, however, had not been totally forgotten. ...
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Lawn Chair Balloon Flight
Larry Walters, who achieved dubious fame in 1982 when he piloted ... do," Walters told The Times after his flight from San Pedro to Long Beach on July 2, 1982. ...
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Description from Wikipedia:
Lawrence Richard Walters, nicknamed "Lawnchair Larry" or the "Lawn Chair Pilot", (April 19, 1949 – October 6, 1993) was an American truckdriver who took flight on July 2, 1982 in a homemade aircraft. Dubbed Inspiration I, the "flying machine" consisted of an ordinary patio chair with 45 helium-filled weather balloons attached to it. Walters rose to an altitude of 16000 ft and floated from his point of origin in San Pedro, California into controlled airspace near Long Beach Airport. His flight was widely reported in many newspapers.
- Also Known As:
- Lawnchair Larry
- Birth Date:
- April 19, 1949
- Birthplace:
- United States
- Death Date:
- October 06, 1993
- Place of Death:
- Angeles National Forest
- Known for:
- Flying a lawn chair with weather balloons
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