【经典晨读美文】拉里的折椅之行（1/3）

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        有飘号
        Larry Walters
        U.S. Air Force
        pilot-training
         Los Angeles
         eureka
one-meter
helium
       
       
Larry Walters' boyhood dream was not an unusual one: He wanted to fly. What was unusual, though, was the way he fulfilled it. After finishing school, Larry joined the U.S. Air Force, but was rejected from pilot-training school because of poor eyesight. However, his dream remained.Larry, aged 33, was not a pilot, but a truck driver in Los Angeles. One day, while sitting outside in his lawn chair, Larry had his eureka moment. As he watched jets fly overhead, an idea came to him to use weather balloons to fly.A few weeks later, Larry bought 42 one-meter diameter weather balloons. He tied them to a lawn chair and filled them with helium.拉里 沃尔特少年时期的梦想很平常：他想飞翔。然而不寻常的是他实现梦想的方式。从学校毕业后，拉里加入美国空军，但由于视力不佳而被飞行训练学校拒之门外。尽管如此，他的梦想依然没变。
33岁的拉里不是一名飞行员，而是洛杉矶的一名卡车司机。一天，拉里坐在屋外的折椅上时，突然一个闪念而过。当他看到喷气机从头顶飞过时，就想到可以用气象探测气球来飞行。
几个星期后，拉里买了42个直径为1米的气象探测气球。他将气球绑在折椅上并注入氦气。