Liam Thompson competes in Red Bull Flugtag for the first time and experiences flying chaos and splashes.

Leonardo da Vinci created his first flying machine during the 1480s, and the Wright Brothers’ first flight was in 1903. This year, North Texans will also take to the air during Red Bull Flugtag Dallas ...

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Red Bull Flugtag returns to Dallas-Fort Worth on September 13, 2025, bringing homemade flying machines and inevitable splashes to Irving’s Levy Event Plaza. The event transforms engineering ambition ...

Red Bull Flugtag — German for “flying day” —i s back in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for the first time in more than a decade. The event takes place at Levy Event Plaza on Lake Carolyn in Irving, where ...

IRVING, Texas — Red Bull's Flugtag event drew 25,000 fans and dozens of competitiors to Irving, as observers watched as homemade flying machines were launched from a 20-foot platform. The event was ...

Flugtag challenges wacky engineers and fearless pilots to fulfill their dream of flying. First they construct their flying machine. Then they take a leap of faith. Or, as is more often the case, ...

There is something irresistible about building a craft and driving it off a high platform into the water. Just ask any one of the teams that participated in Saturday’s Red Bull Flugtag (pronounced ...

Named after the German word for 'flying day', Red Bull Flugtag challenges the brave and brainy to design and build human-powered flying machines, then launch them off an 8.5m flight deck over water.