“Our awesome partners over at National Geographic sent over these incredible photos, as they just wrapped up creating a real-life version of Pixar’s animated hit film Up. It’s pretty amazing what human beings are capable of…
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.
The filming of the event, from a private airstrip, will be part of a new National Geographic Channel series called How Hard Can it Be?, which will premiere in fall 2011.”
See more photos over at My Modern Met (Thanks Duncan)
Wow!
national geographic produce some amazing images. Also want to take this opportunity to wish Derren a happy pancake day! Haha! 
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This is absolutely amazing! It’s pretty epic considering the idea was from an animated movie. Now I wish I had my own flying house.
My jobs so dull. Not a balloon in sight. Unless you count my boss.
That reminds me of the movie Up. Thats probably where they got the idea from
yeh great movie i cried during the first five minuets.
hahaaaaa!!!! awsome!