Chronicling five Chicago kids who entered a contest, won an opportunity and have a lot of work to do in order not to look like big fat fools on a pier.
Goal: 300 yards (or bust) at Redbull Flugtag Chicago 2008
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it is with heavy hearts that tpg announces there will be no red bull flugtag this year, and thus we will not be able to break our world record flight of 08 until 2010. fortunately that just gives us more time to design next year’s record setter.
on a side note, after reviewing the 08 blog, it has come to my attention that we are in need of a new project so that we can continue to team blog throughout 09. someone make that happen.
“I’m Lindsey Rohwer”
bHAHLFLHAHHAHAHA
So the monthly sales/engineering update meeting ended with video of the TPG “flight”. I’m pretty sure nobody at work has any respect for me anymore (not that they did in the first place). It was described as “WMPC engineering at its best”. Great.
TPG baby
It was discussed with PITS to have her wrestle their fetus. That would have been interesting….
Photo from UJ. KMH thinks he should go pro.
Why today, three days later? No idea.
But props to New Style Flyers, whatever that Stanley Cup team was called and the Crusty Avengers for making #10 on today’s SportsCenter top ten plays of the day.
(and to Brother H for spotting)
Can we make this into a Where’s Waldo-esque game?!
DR - that could be how you remain interesting. Search Chicago.
Game on!
Windy City Article #1 (Capone’s Own): 575 … Windy City Article #2 (Building the Dream): 235 … Windy City Article #3 (Wing It aka A Profile of Kris): 171 … Windy City Article #4 (photo gallery): 1,490
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Insights gained by measuring our moberati:
Well played.
Almost forgot about these guys.
Insane
thanks to pie in the sky for this one.
Now that its all over, I can say without question, all the hard work was definitely worth it. Although, we didn’t fly to Michigan as planned, I think it went extremely well. The car looked great, the girls looked great (thanks for taking one for the team), the skit was awesome (no practice). I wish I could have seen the edge of the ramp while I was in the car so I could have jumped with the wings level to the ground. Maybe then I wouldn’t have landed on the hood of the car. But I’m extremely pleased to only walk away with a few scrapes and bruises and not a broken limb like I’d been mentally preparing myself to have for the past 3 weeks. Highlights of the weekend….
Thanks to everyone that came out to watch us, and everyone that helped along the way. It was one of the coolest things I’ve ever been lucky enough to be a part of. Hopefully we’ll see TPG out again next year in some new absurd creation.
Can’t believe it’s over… WELL DONE team TPG.
What’s next?!!!
