Watch Balloons Lift a House 10,000 ft Up
The real Up! Scientists recreate floating house from Pixar movie… and prove it really CAN fly
By Rachel Quigley
Last updated at 10:12 AM on 8th March 2011
When 78-year-old retiree Carl Frederickson’s house takes off into the air aided by the help of hundreds of helium balloons in Up!, viewers saw it is a heart-warming moment of pure fiction.
But for some people, it became more than that.
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Magic: The Up! house which will be part of a new National Geographic TV series called How Hard Can It Be? was 10 stories high, including the balloons. It reached 10,000 feet and flew for about one hour
Record: Dozens of volunteers worked around the clock in the Californain desert to get the custom-built house airborne with the aid of 300 eight-foot-high helium balloons
Film: Carl Fredricksen attached the balloons to his house to fulfil his life-long dream of discovering the wild in South America
The team from National Geographic have built a house inspired by the Pixar movie Up! that can really fly.
Using 300 helium-filled weather balloons, a team of scientists, engineers, two balloon pilots and dozens of volunteers, they managed to get the small house 10,000 feet into the air.
Of course it was not a real house, but a custom-built light weight one.
Executive producer Ben Bowie said: ‘We found that it is actually close to impossible to fly a real house.’
Producer Ian White added: ‘But what we can do is kind of fly a light-weight house and fly it safely with people on board.’
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That’s pretty sweet lol
Fake house.