Yesterday morning, March 5, at dawn, National Geographic Channel and a team of scientists, engineers, and two world-class balloon pilots successfully launched a 16′ X 16′ house 18′ tall with 300 8′ colored weather balloons from a private airfield east of Los Angeles, and set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted. The entire experimental aircraft was more than 10 stories high, reached an altitude of over 10,000 feet, and flew for approximately one hour.
How fucking cool is this? A real life house like the one in the PIXAR movie “Up”! This is something really cool, now if they took the house out and flew it to find me a bird like Kevin and a dog like Dug. Check out more here.
