| Fearless Flugtag Flyers Update |
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| July 10, 2008 |
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| Check out the aluminum skeleton in the picture! My friend Bobby made this thing. It's going to be sporting wings and flying high –or maybe flying low, or maybe just plummeting into the ocean – in less than a week. Not only that, it will have changed into some exotic creature like a seal or a reindeer or maybe even a giant Oompa Loompa. No wait, the Oompa Loompa has already been done…
No, please do not call my editors and recommend that I be committed. They already know that I’m crazy, anyhow. What I’m talking about is the July 19th Red Bull Flugtag. This is the whacked-out event where the brave, creative and slightly crazy will be launching their homemade creations off a 22 foot ramp above Tampa Bay outside the City Park at Tampa Convention Center.
The Red Bull Flugtag is free and open to the public.
Forty teams of up to five members each will be judged on three criteria: distance, creativity and showmanship.
For more information, click here.
Update on the update.
Bobby got his contraption finished, and yesterday evening, he FLEW her! We all piled into the little car we use to pull hang gliders around the field at Quest (the airport I fly my glider out of) and drove out to the runway. Bobby climbed into the harness he had made, and we towed him into the air with the car (yes, we thought about using the plane to tow him, but decided we liked Bobby too much).
He only flew maybe 15 feet high and the glider was a tic sensitive in pitch -- but is this not the coolest thing in the world? Bobby thinks she can perhaps win. I think he’s right.
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| Can you believe this? Bobby's MAKING a flying machine. |
| Credit: Lauren Tjaden, VISIT FLORIDA Adventure Expert |
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