# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/larry-walters
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:40:09.214Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/larry-walters"
name: "Larry Walters"
slug: "larry-walters"
description: "On July 2, 1982, Larry Walters made a 45-minute flight in a homemade aerostat made of an ordinary lawn chair and 42 helium-filled weather balloons. The aircraft rose to an altitude of about 16,000 feet (4,900 m), drifted from the point of liftoff in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, and entered controlled airspace near Long Beach Airport. During the final descent, the aircraft became entangled in power lines, but Walters was able to climb down safely. The flight attracted worldwide media attention and inspired a movie, a musical, and numerous imitators."
tagline: "Lawnchair balloon pilot (1949–1993)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Cluster_Ballooning.jpg/330px-Cluster_Ballooning.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1949-04-19"
deathDate: "1993-10-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.58
  momentum:             2.083699151302312
  historical:           11.08197733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ларрі Волтерс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Larry Walters"
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    title: "Larry Walters"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters"
    title: "Larry Walters"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters"
    title: "Larry Walters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%95%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%A1"
    title: "לארי וולטרס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Լարրի Ուոլթերս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Larry Walters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurentius_Walters"
    title: "Laurentius Walters"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump