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Aviation Suites A unique business setting with overnight accommodations on the tarmac of the Roseburg Airport. Quali

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02/01/2026

Flying is flying…

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In 1982, a man named Larry Walters, a truck driver from Los Angeles, decided to turn a lifelong dream into reality — with a lawn chair, helium balloons, and pure nerve. He tied 45 weather balloons to his patio chair, packed a BB gun and a sandwich, and cut the tether, expecting to gently float about 30 feet above the ground.
What happened next stunned the world. Instead of drifting slightly upward, Walters shot skyward at an alarming speed, reaching nearly 16,000 feet. In the thin, freezing air, he struggled to breathe as he unknowingly drifted into Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) airspace. One astonished commercial airline pilot radioed air traffic control with the now-famous line: “I have just passed a guy in a lawn chair with a gun.”
Miraculously, Walters survived. Using his BB gun, he carefully shot several balloons to descend safely back to Earth. His flight remains one of the most unbelievable true stories ever recorded — a mix of curiosity, courage, miscalculation, and sheer luck. Sometimes, reality is stranger than fiction. 🎈🪑✈️




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