Hughes - who holds the Guinness World Record for longest limousine ramp jump for a 103-foot jump in a stretch Lincoln Town Car in 2002 - had been working toward an attempt to reach the spot where the Earth's atmosphere meets outer space, about 62 miles above the Earth's surface.įor a previous launch in 2018, he had reached about 1,900 feet. The Science Channel, which had been chronicling Hughes's attempt for a show called Homemade Astronauts, confirmed his death, saying, 'It was always his dream to do this launch & Science Channel was there to chronicle his journey.' “Everyone was stunned when he crashed and didn't know what to do.” By any means necessary.“When the rocket was nosediving and he didn't release the three other parachutes he had in the rocket, lots of people screamed out and started wailing,” Chapman told BuzzFeed News in an email. And in case you’re wondering where Volume II went to: “It’s been three years since the first one, time’s running out.” Flat Earth Society stays ahead of the curve.

A tightrope act, voluptuous musical film and a cemetery polka combined, Boggamasta III is another triumph for Flat Earth Society and Bovée. It’s a method, a raison d’être that remains as fresh and vital as ever and never fails to surprise. Make no mistake: even in its third decade, Flat Earth Society excels at creating deliciously unreliable music, full of absurd angles and thrilling twists. Boggamasta III oozes in generous gulps, drawing dazzling imaginary patterns, travels the spaceways with maps that unfold as they go along. Most of the classic FES references – Ellingtonia, viral smalltalk, Zappa, 21st century frenzy – remain intact, but are navigated through the mazes of an urban jungles and fiercely updated traditions.

The freshly brewed Boggamasta III won’t satisfy those looking for answers, as our slippery lawbreakers concocted another batch of coruscating compositions and deceptive tales. The combination of XL band arrangements and this newly-found grit and growling groove worked like a charm and excited alert audiences and press all over Europe and South America. Peter Vermeersch and David Bovée (an early member, returned to the fold) expertly gave birth to the album’s main character, the power addict and megalomaniac Boggamasta, who steered the eager and willing turbo orchestra to new areas of musical debauchery and vice.

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