For American men by 57 helium balloon over the English Channel

According to the U.S. and 14 British media reports, U.S. 37-year-old adventurer Jonathan? Trapp will rely on 57 to tie together large helium balloon launched a startling challenge: he will sit in a special chair, in the helium balloon to fly 2100 meters under the traction of the high altitude, wind over 22 miles wide, the English Channel.

order to succeed with 57 helium balloons flying over the English Channel, on April 10 this year, Jonathan has been the home of North Carolina conducted a "test." His local Shengfu De? Lee County Airport boarded a helium balloon suspended in 40 under the special chair, and then let it pile helium balloon to take him a 2,100-meter-high air, Jonathan in his home on helium balloon flight attendants flying for nearly 14 hours, until the morning of April 11, he was with a knife burst some helium balloon, landed safely to the ground near the city of Fremont.

learned that Jonathan used helium balloon flight is common in the festive celebration of the kind of large-type helium balloon, when it is filled with helium, the smallest balloon diameter and up to 1.7 meters, the largest diameter up to 2.4 meters. Jonathan must be the same as mountain climbers rely on a small portable oxygen tank ventilation. Meanwhile, Jonathan can only rely on "spending" and "pierce the balloon" to control the altitude helium balloon. Under his special seat fitted with several small water tank, when Jonathan needs to rise, he must open the water tank at the bottom of the plug, let the water out, thus reducing weight.

Jonathan helium balloon ride over the English Channel, he will not have any equipment to control the helium balloon flight direction, only by the wind blowing him to the English Channel. It is understood that Jonathan in June this year with 57 successful helium balloon over the English Channel, he will become the world's first helium balloon festivals rely on over the English Channel people.