Recreating Pixar’s UP house in real life… HOW HARD CAN IT BE?
Are you one of those cynics who dismissed Up because a house can’t fly with balloons alone? Well I have some news for you…
Last weekend, cluster balloonist Jonathan Trappe piloted a house, Carl-style, for National Geographic Channel’s upcoming series How Hard Can It Be?
So how hard can making a house fly be? From EAA News:
Lift needed to raise the prefabricated 16-foot by 16-foot structure required assembly of the world’s largest balloon cluster to date (which Trappe said he verified). There were 283 8-foot cells (balloons), each requiring an entire tank of helium (291 cubic feet each) to fill, for a grand total of 82,353 cubic feet (2,300 cubic meters) of the lighter-than-air gas.
If you can’t wait for the fall to watch the full episode, here’s a video from NGC. Skip to the 2 minute mark to see the launch.
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