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Larry Walters' boyhood dream was not an unusual one: He wanted to fly. What was unusual, though, was the way he fulfilled it. After finishing school, Larry joined the U.S. Air Force, but was rejected from pilot-training school because of poor eyesight. However, his dream remained. 拉里沃尔特斯儿时的梦想是一个不寻常的人：他想要飞。多么你寻常啊，虽然他中学毕业后就加入美国空军，但被飞行员培训学校拒绝，因为视力差。然而，这是他的梦想。 Larry, aged 33, was not a pilot, but a truck driver in Los Angeles. One day, while sitting outside in his lawn chair, Larry had his eureka(有了，找到了) moment. As he watched jets fly overhead, an idea came to him to use weather balloons to fly. 拉里，33岁，是不是一个飞行员，但洛杉矶的一名卡车司机。有一天，坐在他的草坪椅子上，拉里带着他的尤里卡(有了，找到了)时刻。他看着飞机飞过，他想到了一个主意，用气象探测气球飞。 A few weeks later, Larry bought 42 one-meter diameter weather balloons. He tied them to a lawn chair and filled them with helium. Then he sat down in the chair with some beer, sandwiches, and a BB gun. Larry's plan was to float about 10 meters above his backyard, enjoy a few hours in the air, and then pop some balloons with his gun to get back down. But things did not go according to Larry's plan. | 
