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Remember the cartoon “Up” where the protagonist tied to his house thousands of balloons to lift it into the air and to go on a trip?
38-year-old British traveler Tom Morgan from Bristol decided perform a similar trick. Using a hundred helium-filled balloons, he flew into the sky in a folding chair, reaching a height of 2.4 kilometers.
The Englishman and his assistants from Adventurers, two days filling balls with volatile gas so Morgan could come off from land near the south african city of Johannesburg. Before the British tried to do this in Botswana, but faced with insurmountable difficulties due to the weather. However, this time everything went just perfect.
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Morgan covered a distance of more than 25 kilometers, after which alternately pierced several balls and thus smoothly and landed safely.
Describing his impressions of such an amazing flight, Tom told reporters:
It was incredibly cool! Feeling is easy amazing, which is difficult to convey in words, even the most enthusiastic! Imagine, you are carried by the wind over open spaces Africa, while you are sitting in an ordinary chair, and above you an armful multi-colored balls – as if in a fairy tale some …
He also admitted that during the climb he felt something middle ground between horror and glee. The man admitted:
If something went completely wrong as planned, then the consequences would be unpredictable for me. They say in South America was a priest who tried to do the same a few years ago and just didn’t return to earth – it disappeared either heaven, or in the vastness of this mysterious continent …
Tom Morgan, inspired by his first success, is now makes plans for the organization of air races on balloons under the auspices his company “Adventurers.” Moreover, he is completely I’m sure that there will be extremes for this – more than enough …
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