Today was the Red Bull Flugtag at Waterfront Park in Portland. I chose to join 80,000 other fans of flight to watch some human powered "flying" machines take to the runway 30 feet above the Willamette river. Due to the sheer number of people present, I went alone. It was WAAAAAYY to easy to lose Drew at this place. Here are some pics to give you a feel of the event. You can click on any of the pictures to see them full size. There is a lot happening in some of them. Some of the pictures are like Where's Waldo.
Holy Crap. 80,000 people makes for a headache trying to find a place to sit. It took me 1/2 hour to find a spot after I arrived at the park... 30 minutes before the event started. You can see my eventual seat in this picture.
Holy Crap. 80,000 people makes for a headache trying to find a place to sit. It took me 1/2 hour to find a spot after I arrived at the park... 30 minutes before the event started. You can see my eventual seat in this picture.
Each of the 31 teams had a 1 minute skit followed by an attempt at flight. Here we see Dark Helmet use his Schwartz against Lone Starr. Shortly after this battle, the Winnebago takes flight! (see next picture)
Umm... I like this picture because it shows the pure FAIL that is most attepts at flight at the Flugtag, and you can see Dark Helmet's helmet flying off. Princess Vespa has just left the runway, and Lone Starr, Barff and Pizza The Hut are next.
As you can see. the river was almost as crowded as the park. The crowds also formed on the Hawthorne bridge across the river, and the opposite bank, from the bridge to OMSI. You can see a sprinkling of them down low along the water line at the top of the picture.
Sweet picture of a beer bottle and the Beer Brothers headed for the water.
Another sweet picture of a team flying into the water.
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We wanted to go to flutag too, but I was afraid we would lose Macain!
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