Milwaukee, WI
Flugtag at Milwaukee’s Veterans Park; local team nets perfect score
Flugtag at Milwaukee’s Veterans Park; native staff nets excellent rating
Purple Bull’s Flugtag flying-machine competitors drew hundreds of individuals to Milwaukee’s Veterans Park on Saturday, July 16.
MILWAUKEE – Hundreds of individuals packed Milwaukee’s Veterans Park for the Purple Bull Flugtag on Saturday, July 16.
Within the distinctive occasion, groups of as much as 5 pilots competed on do-it-yourself flying machines by leaping into Lake Michigan from a 27-foot-high platform – an try at flight that inevitably ends with a splash.
“We’re going to go excessive and much,” stated Mike Hansen. “It has been three months of exhausting labor.”
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Hansen and his Viking teammates from Waukesha took their friendship to new heights as they flew over the lake.
“There’s lots of of hours spent on constructing this,” Joe Reiter stated of their flying machine.
None of these machines went unnoticed – from the small print within the design to the themes themselves.
“It’s so superior to see the creativity and simply seeing folks getting concerned,” stated Andrew Gravning.
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The Waukesha staff was certainly one of 34 competing to succeed in the groundbreaking purpose of 258 toes of flight. They did not get the document, however an ideal rating of fifty from the judges made it price it.
“We’re on high of the world proper now,” Hansen stated.
Flugtag views from Lake Michigan
FOX6’s Spencer Tracy offers an up-close take a look at the Purple Bull Flugtag occasion at Veterans Park.
The groups have been judged on the creativity of their craft design, their efficiency and the gap of their flight.
Named after the German phrase for “flying day,” Purple Bull Flugtag has pushed folks’s creativity to the restrict for over 30 years. The occasion has been held virtually yearly in over 50 international locations and hosted 9 million spectators worldwide.
Purple Bull Flugtag at Veterans Park
In the present day marks the official launch of Wisconsin’s first ever Purple Bull Flugtag! This iconic Purple Bull occasion is difficult Midwesterners to launch one-of-a-kind airships off a 27-foot flight deck erected within the historic Veterans Park and into Lake Michigan.
Purple Bull Flugtag in Milwaukee
In the present day marks the official launch of Wisconsin’s first ever Purple Bull Flugtag! This iconic Purple Bull occasion is difficult Midwesterners to launch one-of-a-kind airships off a 27-foot flight deck erected within the historic Veterans Park and into Lake Michigan.
Purple Bull Flugtag in Milwaukee
In the present day marks the official launch of Wisconsin’s first ever Purple Bull Flugtag! This iconic Purple Bull occasion is difficult Midwesterners to launch one-of-a-kind airships off a 27-foot flight deck erected within the historic Veterans Park and into Lake Michigan.