Kent Couch with Jay Leno
Kent is certainly getting his 15 minutes of fame. I watched his segment on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno this morning (DVR’s are the ONLY way to go!) and I must say he handled himself very well. We was funny and appeared calm.
My coworkers Mark and Doug, good friends of Kent, flew down to Burbank to help with a special project. They constructed a lawn chair with about 80 balloons for Jay to take a tethered flight in. Mark and Doug even made it into the show holding the chair while Jay got ready to launch, way to go guys!
Still no recovery of the original chair, video camera and other equipment from Kent’s 193 mile balloon ride. Hopefully somebody will find it and claim the reward.