Experiment conducted by engineers at National Geographic proof that a house like the old man flying up, the Pixar film released in 2009, may exist outside of cartoons. In the film Mr. Fredricksen, a widower, decides to realize the dream of his wife to reach the Paradise Falls in South America. Not wanting to leave the house where they had lived together, a place of many happy memories, binds to the roof hundreds of balloons filled with helium and, thanks to a complex navigation system, able to overcome bad weather and continents before finally reaching its destination.
In fact a team of scientists, engineers, two pilots of balloons and a troupe of the National Geographic Channel, has made off a small house with a base of five by five meters high and about five feet, supported by three hundred balloons with a diameter of eight feet. The launch took place from a private airstrip east of Los Angeles and the home, which flew for about an hour, reached an altitude of over three kilometers. The event, which you can see a video below, recorded a new world record as the flight of the largest set of balloons and will be broadcast on National Geographic Channel in a program called How Hard Can it Be? (How can it be?).
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