WISDOM IN A BREATH (3 OF 4)
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 10
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Wisdom in a Breath (3 of 4)
Series: Ecclesiastes
Michael White
Ecclesiastes 10
Some of you have heard the story of ''Lawnchair' Larry Waters. He loved aviation but was distraught when he was unable to become a pilot due to his poor eyesight when he enlisted in the US air force.
Yet despite this setback, Larry was a tenacious individual and decided he would fly with or without a pilots license so he contrived a plan to take a brief trip over his neighborhood in a lawn chair hoisted up by helium filled weather ballons.
He figured that he would rest at around 30 feet in the air and when he wanted to get down he would shoot the balloons with a pellet gun and carefully descend.
And on one sunny Saturday in 1982, his plan finally came to fruition. In his lawn chair he packed his pellet gun, a CB radio, a few sandwiches, some beer, and a camera.
But when his friends cut the tether tied to his jeep he didn't lazily stop at 30 feet. In fact, his flying contraption rushed rapidly in the air as if shot from a canon and finally leveled at about 15,000 feet!
He was too afraid to shoot any of the balloons and risk taking the chair off balance so he floated in the Los angeles sky for over 14 hours.
He soon found himself floating into the primary approach quarter of the Los Angeles International airport and was spotted by a US airways pilot.
And you can imagine what the pilot said to the radio tower as he described a guy floating in a lawn chair with a gun over 10,000 feet.
An emergency rescue helicopter was sent to retrieve Larry but the wind from the blades only served to push him father out over the ocean.
He was eventually able to shoot some of the ballots and, upon his descent, crashed into power lines, and blacked out and entire neighborhood.
Somehow he was unscathed and once he returned safely to the ground he was immediately arrested for violating air space and fined 4,000 dollars.
Now upon hearing this you might discern that ...
Series: Ecclesiastes
Michael White
Ecclesiastes 10
Some of you have heard the story of ''Lawnchair' Larry Waters. He loved aviation but was distraught when he was unable to become a pilot due to his poor eyesight when he enlisted in the US air force.
Yet despite this setback, Larry was a tenacious individual and decided he would fly with or without a pilots license so he contrived a plan to take a brief trip over his neighborhood in a lawn chair hoisted up by helium filled weather ballons.
He figured that he would rest at around 30 feet in the air and when he wanted to get down he would shoot the balloons with a pellet gun and carefully descend.
And on one sunny Saturday in 1982, his plan finally came to fruition. In his lawn chair he packed his pellet gun, a CB radio, a few sandwiches, some beer, and a camera.
But when his friends cut the tether tied to his jeep he didn't lazily stop at 30 feet. In fact, his flying contraption rushed rapidly in the air as if shot from a canon and finally leveled at about 15,000 feet!
He was too afraid to shoot any of the balloons and risk taking the chair off balance so he floated in the Los angeles sky for over 14 hours.
He soon found himself floating into the primary approach quarter of the Los Angeles International airport and was spotted by a US airways pilot.
And you can imagine what the pilot said to the radio tower as he described a guy floating in a lawn chair with a gun over 10,000 feet.
An emergency rescue helicopter was sent to retrieve Larry but the wind from the blades only served to push him father out over the ocean.
He was eventually able to shoot some of the ballots and, upon his descent, crashed into power lines, and blacked out and entire neighborhood.
Somehow he was unscathed and once he returned safely to the ground he was immediately arrested for violating air space and fined 4,000 dollars.
Now upon hearing this you might discern that ...
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