Cluster balloonist Kent Couch has a new partner, and a goal to set a new Guinness World Record for longest two-man cluster balloon flight when he sets out from Bend, Oregon, for a landing somewhere in Montana. Couch, who has since 2007 made no less than four public cluster balloon flights will be joined on this adventure by Fareed Lafta. The pair expect to set off from a Stop and Go Mini Mart at about 10 a.m. on July 14 (weather permitting) and fans will be able to follow the trip online. Regardless of the outcome, the pair are already talking about another arguably much more adventurous trip -- in Iraq.
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