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    Gary Mortimer October 18, 2009 at 2:32pm
    No your bang on right, it could lift next to nothing, it looked very good though, much better than my effort!!

    Now if I were to do it again, a solar tetrahedron would be the way forward....
  • Mike October 17, 2009 at 4:25am
    When it was live there was no idea of the size of the balloon but the way it behaved and assuming it had a 20kg+ kid in it I thought it was quite large as it didn't really look like it had much inertia. As soon as it landed I was suprised it was so small and did a quick and rough calculation, and I might be wrong, but it showed that there wasn't really much surplus lift - if any. although I do stand to be corrected....
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    Gary Mortimer October 17, 2009 at 12:30am
    Back in 2006 there were similar cases in RSA But no small children were flying them.

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    Robert Krogh (hooks) October 16, 2009 at 11:10am
  • David Ankers October 16, 2009 at 6:31am
    This was some of the best comedy ever, watching the interview where the kid lets the cat out of the bag is priceless, real awkward silence and then the mum lets off a fart! Brilliant.

    Turns out the Dad is a huge UFO nut (hence the UFO shaped balloon) and the family has been on some trashy US reality show called "Wife Swap", twice. Apparently in one episode he claims to have invented perpetual motion.

    Those articles just don't do it justice at all, watch the very awkward video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI6UONWCq7A

    Here's one of his many UFO rants, too funny.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-6S0OMkiTE

    Poor kid, if being called Falcon wasn't bad enough.
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