Originally published at: Flying an Aéroplume, a one-person helium blimp | Boing Boing
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Carol Cleveland wore it better.
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So 1000 liters [of helium] lifts a little over a kilogram, and a 70kg human needs around 70,000 litres: very roughly 10,000 normal balloons [linky]
(let’see… 1000 liters/cubic_meter. so that would be about a sphere diameter of 5.1 meters unless my abacus needs recharging)
somehow strapped in prone that-a-way it just seems like particularly vulnerable way to witness one’s wind-blown lacerating demise and/or unavoidable descent into a field of cactus. (“plus looks like a guaranteed stiff neck”)
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Is It made and sold by Acme?
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“I just flew in from France and boy are my arms tired.”
Literally.
Why not some kind of bike pedal apparatus for a propeller, and a simple rudder.
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That’s why, when I had this idea, it was in the form of a sort of giant inflatable bobblehead suit. Also my idea was to use hydrogen gas as it’s twice as light and much more sustainable.
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The Golden Age of Colonic Irrigation Ballooning.
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Since the onset of the pandemic, I salute anyone who is optimistic enough to believe that putting a banner on a YouTube video saying “This is real” is all you need to do
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we tried we cried it’s doing something everybody does
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€60?! That is totally worth it!
And it’s near Cherbourg so relatively easy to get to.
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