{"id":1959,"date":"2013-09-16T23:02:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T23:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2013-09-16T23:02:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T23:02:40","slug":"my-red-bull-flugtag-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/?p=1959","title":{"rendered":"My Red Bull Flugtag Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/community\/forum\/latest\/my-red-bull-flugtag-team-and-a-contest-for-you-13530#p180312\">My Red Bull Flugtag Team and a contest for you!<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>Have you ever heard of the Red Bull Flugtag?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X8Y2F1320QI\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X8Y2F1320QI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were asked to participate and assemble a team this past spring for the upcoming weekend in Long Beach. Long story short, if you in and around the Long Beach area this weekend we will be sending it off the Long Beach pier with our own flying machine that we have been working on now for the past 2 months&#8230;\u00a0<img title=\"d'oh!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/phpbb3\/images\/smilies\/eusa_doh.gif\" alt=\"#-o\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, any bets on if she will fly and if so, how far? The winner will get a free T shirt and hat&#8230;AND WAIT there is more&#8230;if you guess the distance and make it to our fly-in in October you will also get a free case of beer\u00a0<img title=\"Shocked\" src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/phpbb3\/images\/smilies\/icon_eek.gif\" alt=\":shock:\" \/>\u00a0Why not make it interesting anyhow.<\/p>\n<p>Here is our craft and team photo. There is a fan favorite vote and thats very easy to do. You can text in a vote to 72855. Our team number is LB17. The easiest way is to go to the website and vote online.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbull.com\/en\/events\/1331590594102\/red-bull-flugtag-2013\">http:\/\/www.redbull.com\/en\/events\/1331590594102\/red-bull-flugtag-2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your vote and lack of confidence in our craft&#8230;\u00a0<img title=\"Laughing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/phpbb3\/images\/smilies\/icon_lol.gif\" alt=\":lol:\" \/>\u00a0Im betting we are going to get real wet in front of a 110,000 people and we may go 50 feet or so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Our design comes from a kit called &#8220;the pig&#8221;. The local EAA group here has helped us on design as well<\/p>\n<p>Aircraft and push cart<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/images\/originalphotos\/1129\/3338\/c6ef3b627a1be767f551fe03.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Push cart<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/images\/originalphotos\/1129\/3338\/782580a986ce327178ba4ac4.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pilot and craft&#8230;we are weighing the craft for CG load this evening. The pilot seating placement will change obviously<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/images\/originalphotos\/1129\/3338\/1301d93081d8615bd0612e21.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our team<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/images\/originalphotos\/1129\/3338\/e79abbbea082432072938ec0.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whats your bet??<\/p>\n<p>AKT<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Red Bull Flugtag Team and a contest for you! Have you ever heard of the Red Bull Flugtag?\u00a0http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X8Y2F1320QI We were asked to participate and assemble a team this past spring for the upcoming weekend in Long Beach. Long story short, if you in and around the Long Beach area this weekend we will be sending it off the Long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}