Redbull Flugtag

[Qacer]

Tampa hosted a Redbull Flugtag event yesterday. The event planners were really lucky because the weather was just plain awesome. The past two weeks we had continuous crappy weather --- lots of rain and thunderstorms.

Anyway, it was a lot of fun. I'm still amazed how they managed to pack ~100,000 people in such a close space. Downtown Tampa is normally a ghost town during night and weekends. It was just a sight to see traffic backed up and all the street parking lots filled. I got lucky and found an empty spot in a public parking area.

If you have a Flugtag event coming to your area, I suggest checking it out at least once. If you get a chance to assemble a team, then I would recommend trying to sign up. Thirty-six teams showed off their contraptions yesterday, and it was funny to see them crash into the water 30ft below.

 

[brxndxn]

I went.. TONs of people acting stupid and getting drunk. It was awesome.

They need to do things like that more often... a ton of effort to build something - just to crash it in the water below.. I love it.

 

[Mr Pickles]

It sounded awesome, half my group went there and the other half (the half I was with) stayed in Downtown St Pete and went to the Sam Adam's Beer Expo. Both groups ended up with some pretty kick ass stories.

 

[bapace]

My cousin has a team building a flying machine for the Chicago Flugtag in Sept.

 

[ObiDon]

i went to the one in portland yesterday. there were a ton of people there. i ended up splitting off from my parents so i could find a good spot to take pictures from. there weren't many places left and i ended up sitting in the blackberry bushes below one of their video cameras for about three hours.

it was pretty cool though, and i got some decent pictures 🙂