Monday, October 29, 2012

Red Bull Flugtag Singapore 2012

28th October 2012, a fine sunny Sunday.
A bit too sunny actually, I was totally burnt with just 3 hours in the hot sun.....
Guess where we are now?

Ta-da! 1st Red Bull Flugtag 2012 in Singapore

Red Bull and Mini seems to have a great relationship.
Wings on a small car.


The Red Bull Flugtag is a Red Bull sponsored marketing event that challenges people to create man-powered flying machines....

From the Flugtag website...

ALL ABOUT FLUGTAG
Red Bull Flugtag challenges the brave and brainy to design, build and pilot home-made flying machines off a 6 metre high flight deck in hopes of soaring into the wild blue yonder…or more often, plunging into the waters below. Flugtag (pronounced floog-tag; noun), 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! Since the first Red Bull Flugtag took place in Vienna, Austria, in 1992, more than 100 Flugtags have been held around the globe, attracting up to 300,000 spectators for a single event.

Sand sculpture... 

Some dragonfly machine. It looks stupid, but it won the Longest Flight Distance 
The Zombie Goldfish. It was one of the funniest coz it just dropped into the water directly.....

Some photos I took.... plus photos from Flugtag website, and some from EDMW forum...






The judges and their scores...


This Prawn will fly!

Gundam?

Transformers?

It's actually Power Rangers!

Tee-Hee.

This is the winning team of 18.2m distance!


World Record 69.79m, but Singapore only 18.2m... zzzzzz


Congrats to all Winners!

SUMMARY OF PRIZE WINNERS:

1st Place: Team Super Sevens
2nd Place, Team Riff Raff Rubber Ruckus
3rd Place, Team Flurry Express
Prize for the Wackiest Team Performance: The Serial Flyers
The MINI Prize for the longest flight distance: Team Amphibious Dragonfly Drone (Distance: 18.2m)
Who wanna see ERP gantry being throw into the water?

Happy!


Red Bull Stewardess! 

The day is really hot! =d
Red Bull is really creative in engaging the public in brand promotion and positive association...
Thumbs up for Red Bull.

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