The Flying Machines of Flugtag
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Former jockey and television personality Allan Robinson poses before a team briefing during the Red Bull Flugtag held at Mrs. Macquarie’s Point in Sydney, Australia, on April 6, 2008. #
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Team “Super Squirrel” flies off a ramp in a man-powered aircraft during the longest flight competition on the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London, on August 3, 2003. #
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Members of the “Enterprise” team send their aircraft off the edge of a pier into the river during Flugtag at Hudson River Park in New York City on October 5, 2003. #
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A participant operates "Flappy Bird," a self-made flying machine, during the Red Bull Flugtag event near Hong Kong's financial Central district on May 11, 2014. #
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“Bull-Run” team members launch their makeshift aircraft made in the shape of Buran, the Russian space shuttle, into the Moskva River during the Flugtag Moscow 2009 competition in Moscow on August 9, 2009. #
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The “Chicken Whisperer” craft soars at National Red Bull Flugtag Long Beach in Long Beach, California, in 2013. It landed in the water 258 feet from the launch platform, breaking the world distance record. #
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