Apr 13 2011
Check Out the Real Flying House
I’m sure many of you have seen the movie Up and wondered if a house containing 1000s of balloons could be a reality. Well, it can. National Geographic‘ engineers, scientists and balloon pilots used 300 weather balloons to launch a house into the air. And it was floating for about an hour 10,000 feet (3,050 m) high.
Turns out tt is the new world record for the biggest balloon cluster flight of all time.
Check out pictures after the jump….
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