In order to fulfill the childhood dream of 'flying in the sky with balloons', an amazing stunt that actually fly in the sky is performed using huge balloons
Watch David Blaine's Ascension: Livestream of his balloon stunt starts now-Polygon
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Mr. Blaine is trying to realize the situation that everyone dreamed of as a child, 'holding a bunch of multiple balloons and flying in the sky.' The flight plan consisted of 42 balloons with a diameter of 8 feet (about 2.4 meters) filled with helium gas and 10 small balloons with a diameter of 4 to 6 feet (about 1.2 to 1.8 meters). A total of 198 pounds (about 89.8 kg), which is the total weight of equipment such as the above, can be floated.
As a reason to challenge the new stunt of 'holding a bunch of multiple balloons and flying in the sky', Blaine said, 'The boy who flew in the sky on a balloon' I saw in the movie as a child 'I want to reproduce it,' 'I want to impress not the fear but the daughter who sees himself who challenges a reckless stunt', and he says that feeling in the following movie.
David Blaine's Most Ambitious Feat Yet-YouTube
In order to achieve the challenge of 'flying in the air with balloons,' Mr. Brain challenged 500 times of skydiving with a skilled skydiver and became a professional skydiver. The reason is that after falling from the balloon, it returns safely to the ground. In addition, he is gathering experts from various fields, such as global weather forecasters and balloon engineers, and is making careful preparations, and he seems to have acquired a qualification as a pilot of a hot air balloon.
Unlike the challenges so far, this stunt will be Mr. Brain alone from the moment I fly on the balloon, so Mr. Brain needs to acquire many skills himself. In order to fly in the air with balloons, it seems that various difficulties awaited such as measures against hypoxia and hypothermia, and acquiring techniques to land safely on the ground.
And on the local time of August 31, 2020, Mr. Brain is finally trying to fly a balloon with a stunt. The state of the stunt is live-streamed on YouTube, and you can check the whole story from the following.
David Blaine Ascension-YouTube
The balloons used for this flight look like this.
Brain carefully checks the equipment in the center of the screen.
I think that I was enthusiastically checking something on the PC screen, and it seems that the descent point was being confirmed.
Brain attaches a bunch of giant balloons to himself.
Move to the flight point with the balloons attached. Blaine's body is still floating in the air.
My daughter attached the last balloon...
When Blaine gave the weight...
It slowly rises to the sky.
The flight starts around 1 hour and 56 minutes of the movie.
Flying in the sky with only balloons……
Brain becomes a small point in no time.
The altitude reached 4500 feet (about 1.4 km).
Each time the altitude increases, a small weight is dropped to further increase the altitude.
Altitude 6500 feet (about 2 km)
From about 2 hours and 8 minutes after the movie, I started to put on the parachute attached to the balloon.
Altitude 10,100 feet (about 3 km)
Altitude 18,700 feet (about 5.7 km)
Equipped with an oxygen cylinder in about 2 hours and 37 minutes. The temperature at this time is 15 degrees Fahrenheit (about 9.4 degrees Celsius).
Altitude 21,600 feet (about 6.6 km)
Temperature is 1 degree Fahrenheit (about -17 degrees Celsius).
Blaine releases the balloon at an altitude of 24,900 feet.
After a while, the parachute was successfully deployed.
And succeeded in landing. I was able to return to the ground safely.
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