CINCINNATI — What do balloons, UFOs, flying skateboards and FC Cincinnati's Gary the Lion have in common? They're all going to try to fly over the Ohio River this weekend. The Red Bull Flugtag will ...
IRVING, Texas — Like many crazy ideas, it all started with a drink. “Margaritas are definitely what inspired us on this one,” said David May. Earlier this year, May and his friends were out to dinner ...
IRVING, Texas — Red Bull's Flugtag event drew 25,000 fans and dozens of competitiors to Irving, as observers watched as homemade flying machines were launched from a 20-foot platform. The event was ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Somewhere on Saturday, Orville and Wilbur Wright will be looking down and laughing. The Red Bull Flugtag will take place in Cincinnati, a collection of homemade flying machines meant ...
Eight weeks ago, Michael Blochberger, 21, couldn’t speak a word of German and had no idea that the word “flugtag” meant “flying day.” Since then, the 2009 Hayfield Secondary School graduate and member ...
Named after the German word for 'flying day', Red Bull Flugtag challenges the brave and brainy to design and build human-powered flying machines, then launch them off an 8.5m flight deck over water.