Russian Victory Day Parade Takes Bizarre Turn with CGI Flyover

During this year’s Victory Day parade, Russian media showed a CGI flyover by the Russian Knights and Swifts aerobatic teams, followed by real images of Su-25s painting the Russian flag in the sky. Russia’s annual Victory Day parade on Moscow’s Red Square took an unusual turn this year when state media broadcasts appeared to replace […]

Lawn Chair Larry: The Truck Driver Who Flew 16,000 Feet on a Garden Chair and 42 Balloons

The Man Who Had to Fly On the morning of 2 July 1982, a 33-year-old Los Angeles truck driver named Larry Walters strapped himself into an aluminium garden chair, attached 42 helium-filled weather balloons to it, packed a pellet gun, two litres of Coca-Cola , a six-pack of Miller Lite, some sandwiches, a CB radio, and a parachute, and floated off into the sky above California . He had planned to…

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