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  HoboTrashcan - Hanging Around ... Red Bull Flugtag
Flugtag, which means "flying day" in German, began in Vienna, Austria in 1991.
The seasoned Flugtag veterans knew what it was like to launch their craft from the top of that 30-foot ramp.
Another Flugtag veteran was the Comeback Kids' Kirk Marshall, a teacher from Bloomsburg Area High School in Pennsylvania who was visably nervous leading up to the start of the event.
www.hobotrashcan.com /hangingaround/flugtag.php   (1149 words)

  
 Red Bull :: Red Bull Flugtag 2006 Makes a Splash Landing in the U.S.
"Flugtag" means "flying day" in German, but more importantly it's American for a bunch of creative geniuses strapping themselves to totally outrageous homemade, human-powered flying machines and launching off a 30-foot ramp into the wild blue yonder, or alternatively, straight into the water.
The deadline to apply for Flugtag Arizona is February 17, 2006.
The deadline to apply for Flugtag Baltimore is July 31, 2006.
sev.prnewswire.com /retail/20060119/LATH04419012006-1.html   (519 words)

  
 Red Bull-Flugtag flap leaves sour taste for some
Flugtag’s antics generated much excitement, but some Villagers said the noise from the event’s loudspeaker system was too much.
Flugtag, a high-flying, higher-splashing event sponsored by Red Bull energy drink, touched down on Piers 45 and 46, at Christopher and Charles Sts., in the Hudson River Park last Sunday from 11 a.m.
According to Duffy, the loudspeakers at the Flugtag event, which were placed along the esplanade railing, were not pointed into the Village, but north and south.
www.thevillager.com /villager_24/redbullflugtag.html   (964 words)

  
 Flugtag makes a B'more splash - Arts & Society
Teams from all over the country and all over the world competed in the annual Red Bull Flugtag to test their hand-made flying machines and launch them off of a giant platform into the waters of the Harbor.
Flugtag, which means "flying day" in German, is an event that Red Bull has had since 1991, when teams first launched their creations into the air in Vienna, Austria.
The team also participated in Flugtag Cleveland in 2004 and placed as runner-up, but was totally knocked out of the competition in 2005.
www.loyolagreyhound.com /news/2006/10/24/ArtsSociety/Flugtag.Makes.A.Bmore.Splash-2382329.shtml   (779 words)

  
 Flugtag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Flugtag (German: flight day, airshow) is an event in which competitors attempt to fly in homemade flying machines.
The first Flugtag took place in Austria in 1991, and the activity has recently gained much popularity as a result of Red Bull sponsored events in London, Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Baltimore, New York City, San Francisco, Miami, Antwerp, Berlin, Johannesburg, New Zealand, Stockholm, Israel, Lausanne, Lucerne, Dubrovnik, Hungary, Vancouver and others.
The first Red Bull Flugtag event in the United Arab Emirates took place on Friday, November 25, 2005 at Dubai Creek Park.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flugtag   (219 words)

  
 Rocket Jones: Flugtag '88 Archives
Flugtag was a huge event, and planning for the following year began immediately after the end of one.
The Ramstein Flugtag is used as a case study in post-trauma counselling.
Back in September I wrote a little bit about the Flugtag airshow disaster at Ramstein AB, Germany, and since then I've had the privilege of giving my personal thanks to two of the men who were on the scene and helping out under overwhelming circumstances.
rocketjones.mu.nu /archives/cat_flugtag_88.php   (2314 words)

  
 UCLA Engineering Sorority Competes in Flugtag
But it isn't some bizarre hazing ritual; the women are taking part in Flugtag, a popular contest where teams compete to build eye-catching human-powered flying machines and then launch them into nearby bodies of water.
Flugtag, sponsored by energy drink-maker Red Bull, began in Austria in 1991, and has since gained popularity in the United States.
For the Flugtag event, four team members will be responsible for pushing Sigmand into the sea, while one lucky participant pilots the bird on its short-lived flight.
www.engineer.ucla.edu /stories/2003/flugtag.htm   (740 words)

  
 Vancouver Flugtag - 2006 Flugtag - Redbull Flugtag - False Creek Flugtag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Having broken the North American Flugtag Distance Record with a whopping flight of 26.2m (86 ft), the Big Shooters were more that deserving of their grand prize and 2006 Red Bull Flugtag Champions title.
Flugtag, a German word quite literally meaning “flight day” could not be a more accurate title for this event.
The 2006 Red Bull hosted Flugtag event in False Creek, Vancouver was hosted, organized and executed perfectly and the city and residents of Vancouver could not possibly ask for a better excuse to get out and enjoy the gorgeous weather and beautiful scenery that is bestowed upon us by the magnificent False Creek.
www.dingorue.com /articles/2006-vancouver-flugtag-takes-to-the-skies   (530 words)

  
 RECREATION / A day to let imaginations, and bodies, fly high / Strapped to contraptions, teammates drop into the bay
Her one request for Saturday's Red Bull Flugtag competition was that he not be the person launched by surgical tubes into the bay.
It was the longest flight of the competition and was partly responsible for "El Toro Guapo" winning the first Flugtag competition in the United States, which drew an estimated crowd of 25,000 to Piers 30-32 and the Embarcadero.
Flugtag, or flying day in German, was as much about inspired silliness as it was actual flight of homemade, man-powered flying machines.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/11/01/WB218984.DTL   (861 words)

  
 Flugtag
The first Flugtag took place in Austria in 1991.
A total of 5 people can be on a team of Flugtag (4 pushers and 1 pilot).
It’s important that however you construct the Flugtag it is powered entirely by human muscle power.
www.georgianhousehotel.co.uk /flugtag.htm   (341 words)

  
 Red Bull Flugtag, Hand made flying machine events in UAE cities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Less than 24 hours after the close of the 2005 Dubai Air Show, an astounding 32,000 spectators enjoyed a unique spectacle yesterday (Friday) when the first Red Bull Flugtag to be staged in the UAE took to the skies over the Dubai Creek.
And from a fleet of machinery built from everything from coat hangers and cling film to Kevlar and carbon fibre, it was Cre8tive 1 that took the title with an overall performance mixing comedy, creative design and an ability to fly furthest from a six metre ramp before plunging into the Creek below.
Although the existing Flugtag record of 57.4m was never seriously threatened thanks in part to a strong cross wind, it didn't affect the crowd's enjoyment of the day as they saw a variety of chefs, students, school teachers, Spanish matadors, adults dressed as dragonflies and Jamaican bobsleighers throw themselves and their constructions into the Creek.
www.redbullflugtag.ae /index-en.htm   (602 words)

  
 Red Bull Flugtag 2006 Makes a Splash Landing in the U.S.
Red Bull Flugtag 2006 Makes a Splash Landing in the U.S. Creative geniuses strap themselves to outrageous homemade, human-powered flying machines and launch off a 30-foot ramp over a body of water as part of Red Bull Flugtag.
CAPTAIN'S LOG The first Red Bull Flugtag took place in Vienna, Austria, in 1991.
For media inquiries about Flugtag Arizona, please contact Nyla Wilkins at (310) 460-5154 or via email at nyla.wilkins@us.redbull.com.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-19-2006/0004263504&EDATE=   (571 words)

  
 The Guide -- Red Bull’s Flugtag Gives Wings to NYC
Sponsored by Red Bull, who guarantees that spectators will be “flabbergasted by the flying machines, entertained by the exhibition and swept away by the entire show,” Flugtag is a worldwide phenomenon that took New York by storm on Sunday, Oct. 5th.
Entries in the New York Flugtag included a prehistoric vehicle, a la the Flintstones, a giant schnoz and a contraption that can be best explained using its name — Aero-Mullet.
Kirk Marshall and his crew created an apparatus that was one part hang glider, one part bicycle to win the 2003 New York Flugtag, logging a flight distance of 39 feet.
www.thehoya.com /guide/101003/guide5.cfm   (616 words)

  
 Mike Sheets - Flugtag home
Flugtag means "Flying Day" and started in Austria in 1991.
Since then, this annual competition has traveled the world with the basic purpose being to launch a pilot off a pier in a way that defies common sense.
He did, however, make a backwards somersault, flip his car off the ramp, stand up in a daze, and make a flying leap off the end of the ramp.
bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu /People/grad_students/msheets/personal/flugtag   (344 words)

  
 flugtag
At Flugtag Arizona — flugtag means “flying day” in German — 31 teams from all over the country will put on skits and then push, drag or pilot their handmade flying machines off a 30-foot ramp into Tempe Town Lake.
Since the first Flugtag in Austria in 1991, there have been more than 35 Flugtags around the world, attracting up to 300,000 spectators.
Currently, the world record for the farthest Flugtag flight stands at 195 feet set in Austria in 2000.
www.gazettes.com /flugtag04202006.html   (598 words)

  
 Students take flight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Since its debut in 1991, over 30 Flugtags have been held world-wide, competing for the opportunity to win a pilot’s training course and win over an amused crowd.
For Weber and his five-man crew, a pilot’s license may have been helpful prior to their launch, as the Sparky replica, titled Dipsomaniacal Devils, failed to reach the 10-foot marker.
Contraptions of the Red Bull Flugtag Arizona varied from a float resembling The A-Team’s van to the Shaggin Waggin — similar to Harry Dunne’s pet vehicle from 1994’s Dumb & Dumber.
www.azcentral.com /sports/azetc/articles/0430flugtag-CR.html   (613 words)

  
 G4 - Feature - Taking Flight With Flugtag
Last year's Flugtag champions, set to fly over the San Francisco Bay, struggle to perfect their craft.
The first Flugtag, German for "flying day," took place in Austria in 1991.
Red Bull's Flugtag is flying day, where teams of competitors fly handmade machines as far as they possibly can.
g4tv.com /techtvvault/features/40575/Taking_Flight_With_Flugtag.html   (590 words)

  
 WISIL at Flugtag 2003 Miami
The WISIL team has once again made the cut as an official Red Bull Flugtag competitor, this time for the November 1st, 2003 Miami Flugtag.
The Miami Flugtag was cancelled by the US Coast Guard due to high wind conditions, but not until all the contestants had brought their machines to the beach in Miami and were ready to fly.
They still held the scheduled pre-flight and post flight parties, so the weekend was a great opportunity for the WISIL team to have a nice Halloween weekend vacation and drink lots of Red Bull in warm and sunny Miami before returning to cold and dreary Chicago.
www.wisil.recumbents.com /wisil/flugtag/flugtag_miami_2003.htm   (1292 words)

  
 Flugtag 2007   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Huber Air Park (E70) is a private airport in Seguin, Texas 20 miles East of San Antonio and 1 1/2 hr.
Flugtag is Sept. 21, 22, and 23 the weekend “after” Bomber Field B-17 Fly-In 2007.
Plan now to attend this one of a kind authentic period Fly-In to fly your German r/c scale model on Fri., Sat., and Sun.
www.scaleaero.com /Flugtag_2007.htm   (149 words)

  
 The PMA: The Flugtag, the iPod, the Lack of Self-Discipline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Flugtag, the iPod, the Lack of Self-Discipline
We were all at Tempe at this time for Flugtag at Tempe Beach Park.
A few summers back, they scheduled this and the flugtag on the same day.
thepma.blogspot.com /2006/05/flugtag-ipod-lack-of-self-discipline.html   (3052 words)

  
 Wired News: This Plane Is a Flotation Device
Flugtag events, sponsored by Austrian energy drink Red Bull, have inspired thousands of people to dress up in weird outfits, stuff themselves into strange machines and launch themselves into local bodies of water since 1991, the year the first Flugtag was held in Austria.
It's not that New Yorkers are klutzy or technically inept; few of the participants at any of the Flugtag events actually manage to fly.
The farthest Flugtag flight clocked in U.S. competitions was 70 feet.
www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,60715,00.html   (849 words)

  
 Flugtag fliers fall far short of the Wright brothers
Flugtag fliers fall far short of the Wright brothers
Take 29 homemade flying machines, five crazy people per float and a few thousand gallons of Red Bull energy drink and you have Flugtag.
Part picnic, part parade and part performance, the event named after the German word for "flying day" took place Saturday at Tempe Beach Park, where thousands of people watched.
www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/local/articles/0430flugtag0430.html   (526 words)

  
 MacAddict Forums / Flugtag
I saw that there is going to be one in Chicago later this year and I am intrigued.
OK, for those who haven't heard of it, a flugtag is basically where a bunch of people build their own flying machines (i.e.
They're just cheap-ass home-made airplane wings, and all they do is allow you to fall into a lake, but wings nonetheless.
www.macaddict.com /forums/post/204528   (290 words)

  
 Der Fledermaus - Flugtag 2003
The WISIL flugtag team has covered the two outer wings with marine shrink wrap, and is hard at work on the controls.
The day before the Flugtag all the crews and vehicles were required to be at the event to sign in and show that the vehicle exists.
The t-shirt in foreground is from Flugtag, it says "We came, We saw, We sank".
www.wisil.recumbents.com /wisil/flugtag/flugtag2003.htm   (1637 words)

  
 .: Corvallis Gazette-Times :. Archives
On April 29, they’ll compete in Red Bull’s Flugtag, which means “flying day” in German.
For Flugtag, teams of up to five people build a homemade, human-powered flying craft that one person pilots off an elevated flight deck, through the air and into a body of water.
Although Stinson will ride atop the flying machine solo, the other four members of his team will all jump in the lake after pushing the contraption off the ramp.
www.gazettetimes.com /articles/2006/04/17/news/community/mon02.txt   (578 words)

  
 Photos of the Red Bull Flugtag Event at Tempe Town Toilet : AZ IMC
Red Bull had their Flugtag Event at the Tempe Town Toilet where your 1st, 2nd, and 4th Amendment Rights have been declared Null and Void by the City of Tempe.
These are photos taken at the Flugtag Event which was put on by Red Bull at Tempe Town Toilet in Tempe, Arizona on April 29, 2006.
The locals call it Tempe Town Toilet because it's stinky and covered with a bunch of green slime in the summer, in addition to the millions of tax dollars that were wasted to build it.
arizona.indymedia.org /news/2006/05/42367.php   (997 words)

  
 Rubber Magazine - Red Bull Flugtag 2006 Makes Splash Landing In USA
The event section will be up and running soon - so make sure your event is in there.
Have your boarding pass ready because Red Bull Flugtag is set to launch over the waters of Tempe, Ariz., on April 29 and Baltimore, Md. on October 21, 2006.
Copy and images may not be reproduced or copied or republished in any way!
www.rubbermag.com /news/0601/060119_03n.html   (486 words)

  
 UA teams booed at Flugtag - News
Created in 1991, the Red Bull Flugtag (floog-tawg) is German for "flying day" and gives teams of up to five people the opportunity to build homemade, human-powered flying crafts that are then piloted through the air and into the water.
Although every team was unique in its own way, several memorable crafts won over the crowd with their humorous pre-flight skits and heroic falls.
Winning the Flugtag for the second time was The Need for Speed, from Fort Collins, Colo., who used "Top Gun" as inspiration for their human-powered fighter jet.
wildcat.arizona.edu /news/2006/05/01/News/Ua.Teams.Booed.At.Flugtag-1897507.shtml   (392 words)

  
 2006 Vancouver Flugtag - Redbull Flugtag - 2006 Flugtag - Vancouver Flugtag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
As I promised in my post yesterday, my pictures from the Vancouver Flugtag 2006 in False Creek have been uploaded and are ready for your viewing pleasure.
The only downside to going to the Flugtag in False Creek was the fact that we had to missing the 2006 Vancouver Zombie Walk.
Vancouver Flugtag - I’ve never been to one of these events myself as there haven’t been any held in Vancouver before, as far as I know, though I hope to get out to check this one this weekend.
www.dingorue.com /category/vancouver/flugtag   (841 words)

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