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  • San Franciscos FlugTag Human Flight Competition. Comedy Costume Flight Competition.

    Returning after a 10 year absence, here it is, in McCovey Cove of Pac Bell Park where the San Francisco Giants play baseball, on a sunny day with 55 degree air and 50 degree bay water.

    YouTube videos

    5. This video shows all the competitors in slow motion along with the Americas Cup Team. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcaRT0Egnnk

    1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqvtxAnVybs

    2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQMe6T3NZ00

    3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puZiMp4rOLQ

    4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS5VkbQ7tek

    RedBull Website: http://www.redbullflugtagusa.com/?ut...francisco-2012

    Take a look at the article on SF Gate with 24 pictures and read the comments. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/articl...#photo-3719344

    A few weeks ago one of the 75 foot Carbon Fiber Americas Cup Racing Catarmarans broke in pieces in the San Francisco Bay after a hard capsize and got pushed out into the ocean by an outgoing tide. Photos 7 & 9 shows the Oracle Team getting in on the madness with the lightweight parts from the salvaged catarmaran.

    This is the way you fly when you have no money but lots of energy and a six pack of beer.

    I think it's a great idea that Red Bull is funding the costs to sponsor this event.

    Some of these flights look dangerous. As you watch the videos, one thing stands out, and that is they are launching into the wind, with home made contraptions that may or may not be airworthy, some don't get off the end of the ramp completely and tend to fall back towards the metal bow of the barge. Seems like if you were to hit the barge from that height or hit or impale yourself with some object from your airplane contraption once you hit the water, it could easily involve moderate to major injuries, paralysis or fatal.

    Look at FlugTag photo #2 here http://sfbay.ca/2012/11/11/festive-f...s-into-sf-bay/
    and see the similarity with the photo here of the Czech Mate Yak with the photo shopped wings:
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    Somebody help me out here by posting both of them in the same thread. I can't post photos here for some reason.
    Last edited by SkyvanDelta; 11-13-2012, 02:48 PM.
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