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Last Updated: Sunday July 06 2008 12:22 GMT

US man makes balloon chair trip

Balloon chair

An American man has made an unusual flight - using his garden chair and party balloons!

Kent Couch flew the chair tied to helium-filled balloons more than 322km across the Oregon desert, landing in a field in Idaho.

He covered about the journey in about nine hours after lifting off at dawn, with the help of more than 150 giant party balloons.

He said: "I'd do this every weekend if I had the time and the money."

Mr Crouch landed by shooting balloons a few at a time.

This was his third trip on the strange flying machine and the furthest he managed to get.