Larry Walters was a California truck driver who achieved accidental fame in 1982 by flying nearly 15,000 feet into the sky using a lawn chair attached to 45 helium-filled weather balloons. Armed with a BB gun, sandwiches, and a dream of flight, Walters intended to hover gently over his neighborhood but instead drifted into controlled airspace near Los Angeles International Airport, alarming commercial pilots and air traffic controllers. After 45 minutes aloft, he began popping balloons to descen