• Kent Couch is a gas station owner and professional cluster balloonist. On July 5, 2008, Couch flew more than 200 miles across Oregon and into Idaho in a lawn chair suspended from Helium balloons.The Associated Press: Man flying lawn chair lifted by helium balloons (July 5, 2008)

  It was the third and longest cluster balloon flight Couch had completed.The Associated Press: Man flying lawn chair lifted by helium balloons (July 5, 2008)

• 1. 48 years old at time of 2008 flight
  2. Profession: gas station owner
  3. Flight took place on July 5, 2008
  4. Flight began outside Bend, Oregon
  5. Flight ended in Cambridge, Idaho
  6. Total distance: 235 miles
  7. Average speed: 23 mph
  8. Flight time: 9 hours
  9. Used a BB gun to pop balloons for descent
  10. Inspired by the 1982 flight of Larry Walters
  11. First flight in 2007 took him 193 miles but ended just short of the Idaho border

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