Lawn Chair Larry Cause Of Death

PhotoRandy MudrickSan Pedro News Pilot Larry Walters walks past police shortly after landing his lawnchair balloon craft The Inspiration in Long Beach on July 2 1982 Larrys Lawnchair is the Official documentary of Larry Lawnchair Walters.

Lawn chair larry cause of death. In the backyard of his home in Los Angeles he then tied the balloons to an aluminum lawn chair fitted with water jugs for ballast. Larry Walters in his lawnchair balloon craft dubbed Inspiration I shortly after tether lines broke launching him skyward. Lawn Chair Larry.

In July of 1982 Larry bought 45 eight-foot weather balloons and a handful of helium tanks. A United pilot first spotted Larry. The motion of the chair caused him to lose his sunglasses but he did keep his altimeter which allowed him to track his height.

I asked whether he had worn a safety belta silly question I thought. At ten-thirty Larry got into his lawn chair. The plan was simple.

Larry passed away on October 6 1993 at the age of 44 in Angeles National Forest. Radar confirmed the existence of an object floating 11000 feet above the airport. Lawn Chair Larry as he became known appeared on both the Tonight Show and Late Night With David Letterman and earned a 1982 honorable mention from the Darwin Awards which he presumably could.

In 1982 Larry Walters achieved his life long dream to fly when he attached some weather balloons to his lawn chair. But his legacy lives on and many others have followed in. He gifted the famous lawnchair to a neighborhood boy named Jerry although he is said to have later regretted giving it away after the Smithsonian Institution asked him to donate it.

Larry Walters who achieved dubious fame in 1982 when he piloted a lawn chair attached to helium balloons 16000 feet above Long Beach has committed suicide. He filled the balloons with helium put on a parachute and strapped himself in. Once his lawn chair was cut loose it shot into the air moving at a rate of thousands of feet per minute.