🎈🪑🚀 16,000 FEET IN A SEARS LAWN CHAIR: THE WILD SKY-HIGH ODYSSEY OF "LAWNCHAIR LARRY" OVER LOS ANGELES! ✈️🔫⚡🇺🇸
🎈🪑 THE ODYSSEY OF LAWNCHAIR LARRY: HOW A HOMEMADE AEROSTAT CONQUERED LOS ANGELES AIRSPACE 🇺🇸✈️ By Will Cavan, Publisher, DMI MEDIA On the morning of July 2, 1982, in a modest suburban backyard in San Pedro, California, a thirty-three-year-old truck driver named Lawrence Richard Walters set into motion one of the most astonishing, audacious, and wildly unregulated private aviation experiments in modern American history. Driven by a lifelong ambition to fly that had been thwarted by poor eyesight, Walters refused to surrender his dream of soaring above the clouds. Instead of surrendering to mundane earthly routines, he engineered a homemade flying machine that captured the quintessential spirit of idiosyncratic ingenuity: an eight-dollar aluminum-frame lawn chair purchased from Sears, affectionately christened Inspiration I , tethered to forty-two experimental helium-filled weather balloons, each measuring roughly eight feet in diameter. Outfitted with a pa...