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Man fails trying to cross Atlantic via balloon cluster

AP 10:47 a.m. EDT September 13, 2013
balloon voyage

(Photo: Mark McBreairty, AP)

Story Highlights

  • Jonathan Trappe used 300 helium-filled balloons, like those used in in the movie 'Up'
  • He'd worked on the trans-Atlantic crossing for 2 years
  • He left from Maine and landed in Newfoundland; France was his intended target

CARIBOU, Maine (AP) A U.S. balloonist who was trying to cross the Atlantic Ocean using hundreds of helium-filled balloons has landed short of his goal in Newfoundland. "This doesn't look like France," he posted on Facebook.

Jonathan Trappe reported that he was having trouble controlling his balloons before landing Thursday evening, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He touched down safely and required no medical attention.

Trappe couldn't be reached immediately for comment.

He had hoped to be the first person to cross the Atlantic using a cluster of balloons. Instead of using a conventional hot-air balloon, he was using more than 300 helium-filled balloons, like those used in in the animated movie Up.

Trappe lifted off Thursday morning from Maine. By the evening, he was well on his way, headed toward Newfoundland. But a couple of hours later, he posted that he'd landed.

He was in communication with a search and rescue center in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said Lt. Steve Henley of the RCMP. Canadian officials tracked his movements on radar, he said.

The RCMP said Trappe planned to hike out of the remote area where he landed and make arrangements to remove his equipment.

The airborne journey had been expected to take anywhere from three days to six days.

"The Atlantic Ocean has been crossed many times, and in many ways, but never quite like this," Trappe said on his website before his departure.

In 2010, Trappe crossed the English Channel using a cluster of balloons. For his trans-Atlantic crossing, the basket in which he was riding was actually a lifeboat that could have been used if he ditched in the ocean.

Trappe said he'd worked on the trans-Atlantic crossing for two years.



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Jonathan Trappe was celestially ignorant to try this stunt
with a Mercury square Pluto oppose Uranus aspect
in effect. So what you see is the effects.

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Had he planned a flight from Maine to Newfoundland it would be a success story.

But for 10 minutes he got a ton of attention in news coverage for a fail.

Shows you how much of the so called news is meaningless drivel distracting us from valid concerns.



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He made it across the English Channel. He was only trying to go a little farther. How far from Maine to Newfoundland? Converting life to cartoons vs. cartoons to real life, maybe it doesn't work as well.

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Cy Valley wrote:

He made it across the English Channel. He was only trying to go a little farther. How far from Maine to Newfoundland? Converting life to cartoons vs. cartoons to real life, maybe it doesn't work as well.

 About 900 Amma Rican miles

 https://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=cr&ei=HWI0UtbvE4TlqgGSuIGADg#q=how+far+from+maine+to+newfoundland&safe=off



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Yeah, but... he probably only flew 600 from Caribou, ME. Snippy smells a rat, no, cold feet, no, an out-of-control balloon clusterfuckup.

Nice quality video, fer sure....

 

http://www.webpronews.com/jonathan-trappe-fails-to-cross-atlantic-2013-09



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Tu cool ! There musta been a lotta hockey fans there eh.

Heard that Star - something song they play before tu many hockey games.



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Wonder how much insurance that 7/8s HAWTIE has on his helium smoking ass?

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Probably about one million dollars.  She probly boinked his brains out already.

Think she climbed his bones to celebrate making it safely all the way to NewfieLand ?



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