This past weekend , Jonathan Trappe successfully vacate a Pixar - esque house to a height of 20,000 foundation over Leon , Mexico , by using a cluster of helium - filled balloon . Trappe has performed similar stunt before , let in toy balloon ride over the Alps , Lake Michigan , and the English Channel . But this latest feat was in preparation for something far grander : A journey across the Atlantic ocean .
Trappe already holds theworld recordfor the largest balloon clustering flight when he used 300 weather balloon to lift a yellow house over 10,000 feet in the tune for about an hour .
But the prospect of a trans - Atlantic flight presents an entirely novel set of challenges . To make it work , Trappe is planning to build an raiment that would involve 365 He balloon occupying a space 106,215 three-dimensional feet in size .
And smartly , the gondola will double as a boat should he have to ditch it in the ocean , what Trappe describes as “ a perfect , sturdy , rigid , doubled - hull proactive lifeboat . ”
Theprojectwon’t be cheap ; he ’s hoping to raise well-nigh $ 300,000 via anIndiegogo campaign . And should the project get off the ground , the ensuing adventure would belike be featured in a television documentary .
As exciting as this stunt is bounce to be , somebody needs to tell Trappe thatthe Earth is range out of helium — a chemic element so light that it can vaporise into blank space .
H / tBuzzfeed . All images : LAURENTIU GAROFEANU / BARCROFT U / Barcroft medium /Landov via Buzzfeed .
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