Get ready to see homemade human-powered flying machines going past each other at the Ukraine’s first Red Bull Flugtag. No less than 40 short-listed participants from a bunch of 700 applicants will give their original flying machines a whirl at the event. The Red Bull soft drink company and its owner Dietrich Mateschitz are sponsoring this event, and have announced lucrative awards for the winning entries.
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The flying machines – constructed entirely of environmentally friendly materials – will be pushed off a six meters-high springboard, placed above the Rusanivsky Canal. A flying machine should not have a wingspan of more than 9.14 meters or a weight (including pilot) in excess of 204 kilograms. While the winner will join the Red Bull Air Race in Lisbon, Portugal, the first runner-up will go to the aviation museum Angar-7 in Saltsburg, Austria. The second runner-up team will win a parachute jump for it.
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Via: KyivPost
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