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 ...

TAMPA, Fla. — The Red Bull Flugtag will return to the Tampa Bay area for the first time in more than a decade. City officials announced that the event, where competitors attempt to fly homemade, human ...

Back in 1895, there was a cranky, old Scottish physicist named Lord Kelvin (AKA William Thomson), who proclaimed, “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” Needless to say, he was ...

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.