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  • Fight and Flight: Homemade 'Flying Machines' Compete in London Flugtag

    06/08/2008 10:57:10 AM PDT · by rawhide · 4 replies · 38+ views
    FoxNews ^ | June 07, 2008
    Wings made out of cardboard, parts attached with chicken wire – these are some of the features of the gimmicky ‘flying machines’ that took off from a 20-foot ramp and then plunge into the chilly waters of the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London, on Saturday. Red Bull’s “Flugtag 2008” is a competition in which home inventors “fly” their machines as far as they can off the starting ramp, while winning points for style, in an homage to the pioneers of aviation, the Daily Telegraph reported. But no matter how far they go, all will eventually meet a cold, watery end....
  • Flugtag's got wings -- and plenty of nuts (Dave Barry)

    06/20/2004 4:56:02 PM PDT · by nuconvert · 6 replies · 201+ views
    MiamiHerald ^ | June 20, 2004 | DaveBarry
    Flugtag's got wings -- and plenty of nuts BY DAVE BARRY These days we take flying for granted. We walk aboard commercial airplanes, and although we don't understand how they work, we're confident that, thanks to the extremely sophisticated technology embodied in these complex machines, some teeny part, possibly in the toilet, will malfunction, and we will be delayed. But sometimes planes actually fly. And when they do, they become soaring monuments to the brave pioneers who made modern aviation possible -- people like Wilbur and Orville Wright Brothers, Amelia ''Air'' Hart, and Earl P. Flinchwater, who developed the computer...