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Associated Press. BEND, Ore. (AP) – Hours into their lawn-chair balloon flight, two men made a hard landing after they were hit by hail and snow as thunderstorms swept into central Oregon.
AP photoThe AP has this report on Kent Couch of Bend who took off this morning on a lawn chair-balloon flight. Riding in a green lawn chair rigged with a rainbow array of more than 150 giant party ...
Attached to nearly 100 helium-filled balloons, Tom Morgan, of Bristol, England, lifted off in a lawn chair into the skies above South Africa last week, soaring to nearly an altitude of 8,000 feet.
Throughout his nearly nine-hour balloon flight in a lawn chair, Kent Couch recorded the scenery between Bend and Eastern Oregon from 11,000 feet. He swiveled a digital video camera back ...
BEND, Ore. (AP) -- Hours into their lawn-chair balloon flight, two men made a hard landing after they were hit by hail and snow as thunderstorms swept into central Oregon. But their back-yard ...
BEND, Ore. (AP) — A gas station owner and an Iraqi adventurer trying to fly from Oregon to Montana in tandem lawn chairs suspended from party balloons made a hard Weather stops tandem lawn chair ...
Hours into their lawn-chair balloon flight, two men made a hard landing after they were hit by hail and snow as thunderstorms swept into central Oregon. Weather stops Oregon lawn chair balloon flight.