Upcoming Flight Schedule

Multiple cluster flights completed! High-altitude flight planned!

Trappe's first cluster balloon flight soared to 14,783 feet-- in a standard, unmodified Steelcase Uno office chair. His next flight, under the 'Blueberry Cluster,' ascended right to the threshold of the highest altitude allowed by the FAA: 17,930 feet (just shy of the Class A controlled airspace at 18,000 feet!)

Now, with a waiver from the FAA and the required equipment (aircraft transponder, oxygen system, aircraft radios, plus permission from local and regional air-traffic controllers) Trappe is planning a flight into very thin air: above 20,000 feet! This is the altitude regional jets fly! At these altitudes, the air is thin and cold. An adventure indeed.

Trappe's goal altitude is a measured increase off his prior cluster flights. A 20,000 foot flight would exceed the Guinness World Record altitude for cluster flights; Trappe would also be one of the very few people on earth to ever enter Class A controlled airspace in only a small harness-- all this under a burst of colorful balloons.