Lawn chair balloonist's flight ends earlier than he hoped A lawn chair balloonist who set out to break a world record for distance traveled landed in a South Washington forest Saturday afternoon just a few hours after he lifted off in his homemade flying contraption.
June 23, 2013 - KOMO Seattle
Man attempting world record lawn chair flight lands in tree LA CENTER, Wash. -- A La Center man who ran into problems in a lawn chair carried by balloons, landed 40 feet up in a tree near the Lewis River in Washington. Joe Barbera was spending his 60th birthday dreaming big by going after two world records. He was trying to go 268 miles, a new distance record. He was also going for the duration record: 13 and a half hours in the air. Barbera started ...
June 22, 2013 - KTVB Boise