Larry Walters or Lawn chair Larry was an American truck driver who took flight on July 2, 1982 in a homemade aircraft.Larry Walters always dreamed of being an aviation pilot, but was born with poor eyesight.From a young age, he planned on creating a flying machine using weather balloons.As a child, his plan was to attach a few helium-filled weather balloons to his lawn chair, cut the anchor, and then float above his backyard at a height of about 30 feet (9.1 m) for several hours.
He intended on bringing a pellet gun that he would use to burst balloons and gradually float to the ground.In 1982,Walters and his girlfriend, Carol Van Deusen, purchased 45 eight-foot weather balloons and obtained helium tanks.
