That is some amazing stuff, the ballooning. The dude claims you should know how to fly before attemping the balloon cluster flying, but I... I have to doubt it...
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For this flight, I launched from Temecula, in the Southern California Wine Country with 72 latex balloons. When I released the cord holding me to the ground, my balloons and I soared upward at five-hundred feet per minute. It was an incredible feeling. Finally, as the thin air became hard to breathe, I leveled out at over 16,000 feet. The wind took me twenty miles to the east, over a lake to a mountain valley, where I landed in a meadow in a pine forest.
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I remember that balloons have the right-of-way in any piloting situation, so in theory the planes have to fly around you, but still. You're not on the radar I would imagine... consider a big-ass jet coming out of the clouds. They would never find your body.