Curbed National: Helium Feats: Balloonist Actually Flies in the Real-Life House From Up

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Helium Feats: Balloonist Actually Flies in the Real-Life House From Up Nov 19th 2012, 21:15 Photo via BuzzFeed This weekend, North Carolina native Jonathan Trappe soared over the International Balloon Festival, in central Mexico, in the real-life version of septuagenarian Carl Frederickson's house from the Disney/Pixar flick Up. Trappe isn't the first to set a replica of the home into flight—in March 2011 a bunch of National Geographic engineering nerds did something similar—but for Trappe (a balloon artist who uses balloons as his vehicle and not the kind who who uses the medium as decor) the feat was a "test run" in a long, hard-fought journey toward his ultimate goal: he plans to make the 2,500-mile voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in a lifeboat kept aloft by 365 balloons. Read more, right this way. · "Up" In Real Life [BuzzFeed] · UP fan takes to the skies in a house by tying hundreds of balloons to it… just like character in Pixar film [Daily Mail]

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