An American flew a green lawn chair suspended by giant party balloons from Oregon to Idaho earlier this month.
Kent Couch landed safely after gliding some 378km on the wind above the desert, according to the Oregonian newspaper.
“He’s crazy,” said his wife, Susan. “It’s never been a dull moment since I married him.”
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Couch left from the parking lot of a gas station he owns in Bend, Oregon. He landed in a horse pasture outside of Cambridge, Idaho.
“If I had the time and money and people, I’d do this every weekend,” the Oregonian reported Couch as saying. “Things just look different from up there. You’re moving so slowly. The best thing is the peace, the serenity.
“You can hear a dog bark at 15,000 feet (4,500m).”
When Couch wanted to go higher, he dumped some of the 170 liters of cherry Kool-Aid he brought with him. When he wanted to go lower, he popped some of the 150 helium-filled balloons that took him aloft.
He traveled at about 32km per hour.
The journey was Couch’s third balloon flight. Couch was inspired by a TV show about a 1982 lawn chair flight over Los Angeles by truck driver Larry Walters.
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本月稍早，一名美國人靠著大型派對氣球讓一個綠色躺椅飄升上空，並乘著它從美國奧勒崗州飛到愛達荷州。
據《奧勒崗人報》報導，肯特．考區在沙漠上空乘風飛行了約三百七十八公里後平安降落。
他的太太蘇珊說：「他瘋了，我嫁給他以後，就不曾無聊過。」
考區從他在奧勒崗州班德市經營的加油站的停車場升空，降落在愛達荷州劍橋郊區的一個馬場的草地上。
《奧勒崗人報》在報導中引述考區的話說：「如果有時間、經費和人群，我每個週末都會這樣做。從上面看下來，事情都不一樣了。你非常緩慢地移動，享受最棒的安祥和寧靜。」
「你在一萬五千英呎（四千五百公尺）的高空上還可以聽到狗吠聲。」
考區希望飛高一點時，就丟掉一些他帶上天的一百七十公升Kool-Aid櫻桃汽水。想飛低一點時，就把帶他飛上天的一百五十顆氦氣氣球戳破一些。
他以每小時約三十二公里的速度飛行。
這是考區的第三次氣球飛行。考區的靈感來源是一個電視節目，節目中介紹了卡車司機賴瑞．瓦特斯一九八二年乘坐躺椅飛越洛杉磯的事蹟。（德通社�翻譯：袁星塵）
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