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Lawn-Chair Balloonist Plans Flight Over Iraq

Kent Couch will lift off from Baghdad later this month

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 4, 2011 6:14 PM CDT

(Newser) – If all goes well, an Oregon gas-station owner will fly over Iraq in his balloon-powered lawn chair later this month. Kent Couch boarded a flight today to the Middle East in preparation, reports the Los Angeles Times. An Iraqi man plans to go up with...   Read full story »

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