With Us In The Waters Of The Serpentine

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Back to the future. More in follow up to today's entries - Tzohar, Mountain Of Time With A Sun In The Circle, Wonder Woman Of The River and Five Cast Away Divers Rescued Alive, Foxnews reports on the dragon of:

The Waters Of The Serpentine
Saturday, June 7, 2008

Wings made out of cardboard, parts attached with chicken wire – these are some of the features of the gimmicky ‘flying machines’ that will take off from a 20-foot ramp and then plunge into the chilly waters of the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London, on Saturday.

Red Bull’s “Flugtag 2008” is a competition in which home inventors “fly” their machines as far as they can off the starting ramp, while winning points for style, in an homage to the pioneers of aviation, the Daily Telegraph reported.

But no matter how far they go, all will eventually meet a cold, watery end. Flugtag, which means “flying day” in Austrian, is all about constructing flying machines that plummet to the water within yards of take-off, the Telegraph reported.

Alex Raffle, the mastermind behind one of the competing machines, said his design changed over time.

Photo is of one of the flying machines headed for the Serpentine today. It flies for a day to live forever.