A few months ago a clever “premake” trailer of Pixar’s Up made the rounds, and now the National Geographic Channel has created their own Up house, constructing a real house kept aloft by balloons! Check out the video and pictures below.
Photos courtesy of My Modern Met.
Yesterday morning, March 5 at dawn, National Geographic Channel and a team of scientists, engineers, and two world-class balloon pilots successfully launched a 16′ X 16′ house 18′ tall with 300 8′ colored weather balloons from a private airfield east of Los Angeles, and set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted. The entire experimental aircraft was more than 10 stories high, reached an altitude of over 10,000 feet, and flew for approximately one hour.
The construction and flight will be documented in the upcoming National Geographic Channel series How Hard Can it Be?, which will premiere this fall.
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