A childhood dream of flight

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imagine as a child you thought if you

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could just get enough healing balloons

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could you float away

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and we're normally told no that's not

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possible you're not going to be able to

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fly with healing balloons but i

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revisited that idea as an adult and i

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argued if one balloon provides some unit

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of lift why wouldn't we be able to scale

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that

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and that's what we're doing

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[Music]

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i'm flying my chair

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my name is trapp and i am a technical

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projects manager at a large it

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consulting forum as a day job but i have

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a unusual passion hobby

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which is to take helium balloons toy

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helium balloons and assemble them in

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massive clusters for manned flight

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these are balloons that were never

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intended to support manned flight but

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that's what we've caused them to do 17

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100 still climbing

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that passion has carried me aloft on

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more than a dozen flights across as many

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years

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sometimes it's just me just my body in a

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tiny little harness sometimes we're

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flying bigger things i've flown houses

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what a thing to say i've flown houses

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two of them

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we were flying these toy helium balloons

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before the disney pixar film up but i

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will