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GRANTS PASS, Oregon (AP) — Four years ago, Kent Couch made headlines by floating through the clouds in a lawn chair hoisted by party balloons from Oregon to Idaho. He's going to fly again, this time with a buddy sitting on a second lawn chair at his side.

They are planning to take off July 14 from the parking lot of Couch's gas station and convenience store in Bend, Oregon, the way he did in 2008 when he floated 235 miles to an Idaho farm field.

Iraqi adventurer and skydiver Fareed Lafta, who read about Couch's exploit, will be going along for the ride so he could add lawn-chair ballooning to his bucket list.

"We can't hit above 18,000 feet (because of federal flight restrictions), but we can make a good run at, I imagine, 400 miles or plus" in distance, which should put them in southwestern Montana after an overnight flight, Couch said.

The flight will be a warm-up for another one planned for this fall in Iraq. The men had to scrub a tandem flight last fall after Iraqi officials said they couldn't provide security for the liftoff from a Baghdad soccer stadium.

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[Growled]

That would be a cool thing to do.I would have thought that the balloons would have popped or gave out before a person could go that far.

[Enron]

How do you steer? What if you have to pee?

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Enron, on 17 June 2012 - 01:38, said:

What if you have to pee?

Just let if go, I suppose. Some lucky people down below would probably think it's just raining.

[Hum]

I'd be worried about the jackass with the pellet gun.