Photos: Getting an armchair off the ground

Team leader and ballooning world record holder Troy Bradley and a group of volunteers got the 64 balloons ready to carry the requisite armchair.

One by one, Bradley and his group clipped new balloons onto the cluster. The process involved distributing them evenly into the cluster, which ultimately was shaped roughly like a lightbulb. The balloons were also distributed evenly by color.

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Caption by Daniel Terdiman