![]() ![]() ![]() In the meantime, you can learn more about the Up house in the two videos after the photos, below. Assuming the winds were blowing in the right direction, would that be possible in real life? Catch National Geographic’s How Hard Can It Be? series to find out it debuts in the United States in late 2011. In the movie Up-an excellent and at times heart-wrenching tale, not incidentally-the protagonist flew in his house all the way to the jungles of South America. Initially that didn’t sound like a lot of balloons to us but it turns out to be the largest cluster ever used for a flight. It took 300 weather balloons to lift that load. The heartbreakingly beautiful story of the real ‘Up house’ by Tyler Leigh Vivier tylerleighv There is a little house left between a newly built shopping center that is said to be the real story behind the ‘Up’ movie this is the heartbreakingly beautiful story. The house, together with the crew, weighed a bit less than 3,000 lbs (1,360kg) or about as much as a Volkswagen Jetta automobile. (Is “piloted” even the correct verb to use for the act of flying a house?). Nevertheless, that they managed to build any real life version of the house is incredibly impressive, not only because it resembled the one from Up but because it was really able to fly!Ī crew of living, breathing, non-animated humans piloted the house to an altitude of 10,000 feet (3,050m) on their hour long test flight outside of Los Angeles. National Geographic’s crew was also able to build small-the footprint of their structure was a relatively tiny 16 by 16 feet (5 x 5 meters). The real life Up house didn’t include any furniture, large appliances, indoor plumbing or other heavy items found in a typical house. The key to making a flying balloon house work is cutting down on the building’s weight. The team of scientists, engineers and balloon pilots assigned the task of building a real life Up house discovered that the answer to that question-how hard can it be?-turned out to be: pretty darn hard. Yet that’s exactly the challenge National Geographic took on for an episode of their new TV series How Hard Can It Be?. ![]()
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