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Flying a Deckchair to 16,000 Feet: Lawnchair Larry | Fascinating History

This video tells the story of Lawnchair Larry - a man who built an illegal cluster-balloon rig in his mother-in-law's backyard and accidentally became famous... Fascinating History posts weekly videos about infamous flops, failures and mistakes from throughout history... and whatever other weird stories from the past catch my eye. Thanks for watching! LINKS: 🔗 ► My other channel:    / @fascinatinghorror   ► Support this channel:   / fascinatinghorror   |    / @fascinatinghistoric   ► Follow me:   / funhistorytales   |   / funhistorytales   |   / funhistorictales   ► Get in touch: [email protected] CHAPTERS: 🔖 ► 00:00 - Intro ► 01:03 - The Life of Larry Walters ► 05:24 - "Lawnchair Larry" ► 14:40 - What Happened After MUSIC: 🎵 ► "A Stranger Thing" by Bruno E ► "Sugar High" by Jeremy Korpas ILLUSTRATIONS: 🎨 ► Comics by Emma Galloway (https://artofemmag.carrd.co/) SOURCES: 📑 ► "The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair" by George Plimpton, published by The New Yorker, May 1998. Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/19... ► "The lorry driver who took to the skies in a lawn chair suspended from 42 helium balloons, armed with a compass, sandwiches and litres of Coke - and ended up buzzing an airport and causing a blackout" by Tom Leonard, published by The Daily Mail, May 2024. Link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti... ► Lawn Chair Larry Darwin Award Entry, published by The Darwin Awards. Link: https://darwinawards.com/stupid/stupi... ► "How the Balloon-Borne 'Flying Lawn Chair' Got Into the Smithsonian" by Rebecca Maksel, published by Smithsonian Magazine, September 2019. Link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-sp... ► "Larry Walters; Soared to Fame on Lawn Chair" by Myrna Oliver, published by the Los Angeles Times, November 1993. Link: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-x... #history #failure #aviation #business #mistakes #weirdhistory