Sponsorship roundup
By Adnews Staff
Energy drink Red Bull will be the title sponsor an event called the “Red Bull Flugtag” in Vancouver on Aug. 19. The event is currently soliciting 30 teams of five that will compete to travel the greatest distance in home-built human-powered flying machines. The competitors will launch from a 30-foot ramp into False Creek. Entrants will be judges on distance, creativity and showmanship. The grand prize winner will receive a pilot’s training course. Second place will win a skydiving trip, while third place will win a paragliding trip. “Flugtag” is German for “flying day.” The first such event was held in Vienna, Austria in 1991. Approximately 50 events have taken place internationally since then. The distance record currently stands at 195 feet, set in Austria in 2000. A website for the Vancouver event has been constructed at <http://www.redbullflugtag.ca>.