Man who flew in lawn chair over Calgary plans legal, record-breaking flight
CALGARY — An Alberta man who was nicknamed “balloonatic” for soaring over the Calgary Stampede grounds in a lawn chair held aloft with helium balloons says he’s planning a legal flight that would break a skydiving record.
Dan Boria says he plans to apply for permits from Transport Canada to launch a high-altitude flight and is midway through getting a hot-air balloonist licence.
“I’m going to break the world record for the highest skydive from space and we’re going to go up in a lawn chair,” Boria said in an interview.
“If we don’t get the permits here in Canada, we’re going to have do it in the States, though I’d prefer to do it in Alberta.”