BEND, Ore. – Last weekend, Kent Couch settled down in his lawn chair with some snacks — and a parachute. Attached to his lawn chair were 105 large helium balloons. Destination: Idaho. With instruments ...

In what police aren’t describing (but I definitely am) as a “Classic Up situation,” 26-year-old Daniel Boria tethered 110 giant balloons to his lawn chair until he flew away. Despite turning life into ...

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 aircraft ...

BEND, Ore. – Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert ...

The chair of the National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday that a weather balloon may be responsible for cracking ...

Kent Couch used balloons and a lawn chair to fly above the Oregon sky. July 11, 2007 — -- When the mischievous children's book monkey Curious George wanted a lift, he simply grabbed onto a bunch ...

Balloons Over Vermilion Co-Chair Carly Goodwin is shown with her family at last year’s event. ABOVE: Goodwin talks to students inside a partially inflated hot-air balloon. BELOW: A hot-air balloon is ...