Lawn-chair pilot plans 300-mile flight
GRANTS PASS , Ore. — Like many Americans, Kent Couch plans to settle into a lawn chair this weekend. Unlike everyone else, his feet will dangle high above the lawn.
Couch is set to launch himself skyward Saturday aboard his lawn chair, which will be attached to 150 giant latex party balloons filled with helium. His goal is to fly more than 300 miles from his gas station in central Oregon to somewhere in Id...
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