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Comparing himself to historical pioneers, a somewhat unrepentant Daniel Boria on Friday vowed to continue publicity stunts in the future like his “balloonatic” flight over Calgary.

“(They) didn’t charge the Wright brothers,” Boria said, referring to the aviation pioneers who first took mankind to the air.

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“Why climb the highest mountain, why 85 years ago fly the Atlantic?” he asked.

“I chose to fly a chair not because it is easy, but because it is hard,” Boria said, borrowing freely from John F. Kennedy’s speech about the space race.

In court Boria offered an apology to Judge Bruce Fraser for his conduct, which endangered flights into and out of Calgary International Airport on July 5, 2015.

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“I really do apologize for it,” he told the provincial court judge.

“I understand the danger.”

But once media cameras started rolling, Boria was less contrite.

“I have remorse, I understand that we did cause a little bit of danger, but at the same time when you text and drive they don’t charge you as if you’ve hit a whole bus of kids,” he said.