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....Freak in the morning, Freak in the evening, aint no other Freak like me thats breathing....
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....Freak in the morning, Freak in the evening, aint no other Freak like me thats breathing....
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It was fun while it lasted...
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Attaching 55 helium balloons to his trusty office chair, adrenaline junkie Jonathan Trappe managed to soar to nearly 15,000 feet.
He reached a height of 14,783 feet after strapping the industrial-strength balloons to the steel-cased chair and setting off from an airport in North Carolina
I lifted into the skies at 6.30am and carried in total 350 pounds of ballast held in water tanks, to aid in my ascent.'
Using 55 canisters of helium, one for each balloon, Mr Trappe ascended at 32 mph - or 521 feet per minute.
And in case of disaster he carried an emergency parachute which he hoped he would never have to use.
'The flight was very wobbly, especially in an average office chair,' he said.
'I was beginning to think that it was best left tied to my desk.'
Within one hour, Jonathan rose to a height of almost 15,000 feet before natural wind currents took him back down to around 3,500 feet.
'I then let out 30 pounds of my water ballast and rose again to almost 14,000 feet, at which point I popped four balloons to descend,' he said.
Wearing clothes he would normally wear on a trip to the ski slopes, Mr Trappe battled temperatures of -15c.
'It was cold up there and I had to use an oxygen mix like mountaineers,' he said.
'Even though it was a midsummer's morning when I took off, it was freezing up at the top point of my lift.'
Returning to the ground more than three hours after take-off near Battleboro in North Carolina - more than 60 miles from his take-off point - Mr Trappe packed up his trusty chair and returned it back to his desk.
'I still sit on the same chair at work,' he said.
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