National Geographic Recreates The Flying House From ‘Up’

The folks over at National Geographic have doen the unimaginable, or at least, possible in real life. For a new show called How Hard Can It Be? they’ve made a real life, flying house, just like the one in the movie Up.

Yesterday morning, March 5 at dawn, National Geographic Channel and a team of scientists, engineers, and two world-class balloon pilots successfully launched a 16′ X 16′ house 18′ tall with 300 8′ colored weather balloons from a private airfield east of Los Angeles, and set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted. The entire experimental aircraft was more than 10 stories high, reached an altitude of over 10,000 feet, and flew for approximately one hour.

This is so phenomenal, I really can’t believe it. What I want to know is how they safely landed it! Did they shoot the balloons slowly until eventually it landed. I guess the only way to know is to watch the show. You can see a bunch more photos over on My Modern Met.

Bobby