![]() On May 28, 2010, Sky News reported on Trappe's crossing of the English Channel by cluster balloon. The flight reportedly lasted for four hours and covered 50 miles (80.5 km) before Trappe returned to earth, retired the chair, and returned it to his workplace. Just two months later, in June 2008, FAA licensed pilot Jonathan Trappe attached a cluster of balloons to his standard, unmodified office chair and flew it to an altitude of 14,783 feet (ca. Carli at one point reached an altitude of 6,000 metres (19,685 ft) before losing contact with authorities. Ground observers lost track of him when he floated out above the ocean, and he was missing until part of his body was recovered by an offshore oil rig support vessel on 5 July 2008. In April 2008, in Brazil, Roman Catholic priest Adelir Antonio de Carli ascended with 1000 balloons. He was spotted by a Japanese coast guard aeroplane on 25 November 1992, located about 800 km offshore over the Pacific Ocean, at altitude between 2,500 and 4,000 m, and was never seen again. Yoshikazu Suzuki departed from Lake Biwa in Japan on 23 November 1992 with 23 helium balloons. This is a pending world record being considered by Guinness Book of World Records. On June 8, 2013, Joe Barbera, of La Center, Washington, launched a lawn chair with cluster balloons and recorded a new altitude record of 21,194 feet (6,460 m). His record is not recognized, however, because he did not carry a proper altimeter. ![]() ![]() Larry Walters is estimated to have reached 16,000 feet (4,900 m) in 1982. The Guinness Book of World Records recognizes the highest altitude attained via cluster ballooning to be that achieved by Mike Howard (UK) and Steve Davis (US), who on August 4, 2001, over Los Lunas, New Mexico, US, used 400 helium balloons to reach a height of over 18,300 feet (5,600 m). ![]() John Ninomiya's flights made on have been featured on The Science Channel, The History Channel, TechTV, TLC, and MTV. On May 4, 2002, high school student Sarah Morgan was lifted up by 30 weather balloons and flew for 20 miles before being rescued after the ropes holding her broke in high winds Reaching a high altitude and seeing no other way of getting down, he eventually shot several of the balloons, initiating his descent. However, he was initially hesitant to shoot any balloons, as he was concerned about falling out due to a loss of stability. Walters reportedly had planned to control his altitude by using a pellet gun to selectively pop some of the balloons. Walters quickly rose to nearly 3 miles (5 km), over 50 times his intended maximum altitude. In defending against charges later filed against him by the FAA, he stated that he intended to rise just a few hundred feet (about 100 metres), but underestimated helium's lifting power, causing his tethering strap to break prematurely. In the Lawnchair Larry flight, Larry Walters, without any prior ballooning experience, attached 43 helium-filled weather balloons to a lawn chair and lifted off in 1982. Mullen, spotted the incident, and after a chase of some 13 miles (21 km), used a 22-caliber rifle to shoot out three of the balloons, thus allowing the photographer to return safely to the ground. Suspended from the balloons by a parachute harness in order to take aerial film footage, his mooring rope broke and he was lifted approximately 700 feet (210 m) into the air. In September of the same year, inspired by Piccard, an American photographer for Paramount News used 32 weather balloons for a feature photography assignment near Old Orchard Beach in Maine. The Swiss adventurer Auguste Piccard experimented with cluster balloon flight in Rochester, Minnesota, in July 1937. Ballast, e.g., bottled water, can also be jettisoned to facilitate ascent. To control flight, arrest a climb or initiate a descent, the pilot incrementally jettisons or deflates balloons. Unlike traditional hot-air balloons, where a single large balloon is equipped with vents enabling altitude control, cluster balloons are multiple, small, readily available and individually sealed balloons. Cluster ballooning is a form of ballooning where a harness attaches a balloonist to a cluster of helium-inflated rubber balloons.
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