CHASE Flugtag Team

Date: September 4
Location:  Penn's Landing - Philadelphia, PA

Red Bull Flugtag challenges the brave and brainy to design, build and pilot homemade flying machines off a 30-foot high flight deck in hopes of soaring into the wild blue yonder…or often, plunging into the waters below.  Flugtag, which means “flying day” in German, pushes the envelope of human-powered flight, but competitors need more than airtime to reach the podium. Teams are judged on three criteria: flight distance, creativity of the craft, and showmanship.  This criteria has inspired flying tacos, prehistoric pterodactyls, winnebagos with wings and even Snoopy and the gang to grace the Flugtag flight decks! And after a year with no Red Bull Flugtags in the US, 2010 promises to be bigger and better than ever.  

This will be Red Bull Flugtag's first visit to Philadelphia, and what better place to round out this crazy summer than the City of Brotherly Love. Come September 4th the skies above the Delaware River will swarm with homemade flying machines that are sure to reflect the city's rich history, but we're sure to see some pay homage to the region's sports, food, culture and rivalries as well.  This Labor Day Weekend will be one for Philadelphia's record books.

Since the first Red Bull Flugtag took place in Vienna, Austria, in 1991, more than 80 Flugtags have been held around the globe, attracting up to 300,000 spectators for a single event. The record for the farthest flight-to-date currently stands at 195 feet and was set at Red Bull Flugtag Austria in 2000.  A new U.S. record was set in 2007 at Red Bull Flugtag Nashville when a flying banjo flew 155 feet!

Interested Team Members should e-mail Jack Fan.