Fly Boy
A lawn chair and some party balloons help a man achieve his childhood dream
Some young boys dream of playing for the NFL or driving a race car in the Indy 500. Kent Couch wanted to soar among the clouds. The 48-year-old owner of the Stop and Go gas station in Bent, Ore., has achieved that dream not once, but three times, with the help of a lawn chair and hundreds of balloons. It was a truck driver who first inspired Couch’s pursuits — in 1982, trucker Larry Walters soared over Los Angeles in a lawn chair attached to 45 weather balloons. Walters, who reached…




