A Home in the Sky

Inspired by the 2010 blockbuster animation movie, Up, a team at National Geographic recently came up with an airborne house.

Inspired by the 2010 blockbuster animation movie, Up, a team at National Geographic recently came up with an airborne house. They built a spectacular lightweight house measuring 4.8 m x 4.8 m x 5.5 m that had 300-helium balloons holding it up. Named after the film’s protagonist Carl Frederickson, the house flew some 3,500 metres above California’s High Desert for an hour. And surprise of surprises! The house was actually inhabited while it was high up in the air. The team engineered this fantasy for Nat Geo’s new show How Hard Can It Be? In doing so, they created a world record for the largest cluster balloon flight ever attempted.