Considering the team is called The Wrong Bros, what could possibly go wrong 48 hours before launch?

• The pilot being admitted to hospital? 
  
• The transport company realising that the lorry they have (the biggest one you can drive on UK roads wiithout a police escort) is too small?
  
• The gold bikinis that you had to get from the states getting stuck in Wales?
  
• The girls that you have to go in the bikinis getting hit by a mystery bug & dropping out like flies?
  
• The Princess Leia slave girl outfit which was beautifully made by Max at www.maxkane.net being left on a bus & taking a trip to Ponders End...by itself..
• Realising that maybe wheels would be a good idea....

Surely not?

Good job there is always a plan B....ermmmm....

Anyone got a spare pilot/crane/gold bikinis/girls to go in gold bikinis/a map to Ponders End/any wheels?....

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 We are raising money for The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.  http://www.jdrf.org.uk/

GOOD LUCK TO EVERY ONE, NOT LONG NOW,  Just Remember to take a day off!!

Bless you ALL ,

So what do you need to give a blinding performance at RED BULL FLUGTAG 2008?...

Star Wars Theme - CHECK

Fully Working Light Sabres  CHECK (though the team leader's one is a bit bent)

12 girls dressed in gold bikinis like Princess Leia in Return of The Jedi - Erm...Not so check...

Having trawled the land (aka Facebook) to find 12 beautiful (lets face it, who wants to see a Jade Goody lookalike in a bikini), brave (would you wear a bikini in June in London?!) and generally up for it (interpret that any way you like!) ladies, I can safely say that organising the 2012 olympics would've been a helluva lot easier.

So why 12 girls? No idea. Why the bikini? HAVE YOU SEEN IT?! Plus we might as well milk the theme for all it's worth.

Slight issue in that NOONE sells it, despite there being an entire website www.leiasmetalbikini.com dedicated to it. 

So with a bit of begging, natural charm & the help of the ever lovely Scarlett L'amour we have 12 'normal' looking gold bikinis coming from the states (yes, I know we are creating a chewbacca sized carbon footprint, but if you can find gold bikinis in this country then you deserve a medal).

 

However, our beloved *insert sound of vomiting here* team leader/slave driver/alcoholic-in-training/sleazebag/ham solo has his heart set on the original outfit (with me in it-gulp).

And with just 12 days to go, not only is the plane in two bits (don't ask...at least they've chiselled it off the floor they glued it to first...oh yes..they did this) I have to find someone to make a replica outfit.....CAN ANY ONE KNIT?!......
 
Christie AKA Princess Leia Number 13.

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Hi All,

Our testing Schedule took a hit today as this pants weather hit, wouldn't want to get the submarine wet! anyway we have been doing shouting round our local area trying to get some money for the RNLI a couple of the guys went to Time FM to record an interview and we are going to Lakeside shopping centre on Sunday 1st June so if you are about come and say hello! hear the radio clips below, even the Nuns and the Bimbos get a mention, no need to thank us guys just send money.

goto www.dagsac.co.uk or group Flying Aquanauts on FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18804873775 or

Bless you All,. Sister Audax Interfactor XX

Why would you want to look at a big polystyrene plane when the Wrong Brothers team are so damned good at throwing press do's instead?!?

In honour of our latest TV coverage we hosted an exclusive photo shoot in the heart of the Clerkenwell Deathstar, everyone who’s anyone was there, the Jedi Council, Solo, Chewbacca, Leia, even that ponce Fett turned up and tried to blast everything in sight!

oh... and of course the Imperial dance troop....

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The Bad Habits are still busy Chillin, Thinkin, Drinkin, smoking but have finished Plannin and, material buying, extensive list building, praying and fighting.... We have started to build our sacred Mother Nun!!  Soon there will be pictures and videos of the construction taking place, but here is a short video of the blessed team planning and designing! Sister Audax Interfactor XX Bless You ALL XX

It seems that the videos do not work on 75% of computers so here is a link to the video on You-Tube, Bless you Agian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6c2jpYOYrk

The build seems to be all going to schedule, we are going to spend the weekend before the event doing a couple of fund raising events at our local shopping centre and at the town Train Station. so if you are near Brentwood Rail station on Saturday 31st May or Lakeside shopping centre on 1st June keep an eye out for us.

We are raising money for our club and the RNLI.

Keep up to date on what is going on at Flying Aquanauts by logging in to www.dagsac.co.uk/flugtag.asp

...In LA Galaxy, far, far away, Becks was trying to get the Dark Side (Americans) to adopt a whole new ball game. Back in the tiny, inhospitable urban jungle of the Clerkenwell System, a rebel alliance was forming with a far greater challenge to face. This alliance comprised a bunch of heavy drinking, irresponsible shirkers who frequented one of the most dangerous parts of the Moss Smithfield Space Port – The Death Bar. And it was usually not-so-happy hour.

Young rebel Blue Skytalker (he talked an awful lot of marketing crap!) was attempting to convince smuggler Ham Solo – a terrible actor who couldn’t get a girlfriend – to lend the alliance his decrepit old banger of a spaceship, the Millexenium Falcon. Blue needed a vessel for the ultimate intergalactic showdown – the Red Bull Flugtag in Hyde Park. But first he had to convince Ham and his sidekick Chewbaccie (a weird cross-breed creature that was half Red Neck and half 1970’s ventriloquist bear puppet) to give up their beloved heap of junk.

Having explained that the beautiful Princess Layher had said she would do just about anything (and anyone) if she could win the Flugtag, Ham and Chewie soon agreed to the request and even offered their own services to the rebel alliance. Blue, however, knew that, even with the Falcon he would need an ace pilot to win the ultimate prize. Unfortunately, the search would not be easy. Unlike the Princess…

 Cock of the  . . . East!

Okay - we took our first test flight on Sunday . . . it was all good fun, we thought it was amusing - that is until we landed somewhere in the Middle East!

 Initially, when the locals saw the Cock 'arrive', they thought it was 'the second coming' . . . after a few attempted, but failed miracles, the (at that point, rather angry) crowd dispersed knowing not what they had seen, but knowing that it was not the Messiah and his mates.  Fortunatly we managed to cleverly disguise ourselves as local chart wannabees  'Rock The Casbah'

Left to right: Pete, Dave, Andy (In a blokes clothing, rather than a dress!) & Steve.

Unfortunately, we crash landed, and are struggling to obtain some welding gear, and sufficient Gaffa tape to fix the craft.  Hopefully we'll be back in time for the competition.

In a fortunate turn of events over a drinking game with some local police, we've managed to secure ourselves 4 camels . . . but that's no way to talk about the local women!

Until next time . . .  

The first wood was chopped, the first pipe was plumbed, and the first screws were screwed. Yes the Cheesey Loafs have finally got their act together and started baking the cake.

Three tiers plus one crowning glory.

The Vulture supplied the wood, either too heavy or too flimsy.

barnes supplied the pipe and connectors.

The Rev. Chessey Loaf supplied his wit and charm.

The Dirt Monster hobbled around on his dicky leg.

The lady folks cooked up the bacon butties and tea.

Meanwhile The Wolf was with is missus in Cornwall "cutchy-koo-ing" 

Next stage the Vulture and the wolf promise to bring this baby to life, before next major build day 10th May.

Much more info at www.beardedbride.com

Everything Andy says is wrong! 

Sorry it's taken us so long to get started. We are all master craftsmen but useless on the computer!!! So bear with us and remember to rate our blog content not it's appearance.

This is our team below.

 ^_Introducing

Lord Craig of Oxhey AKA Mr T

Sir Andy Gas AKA Face Man

Baron Wayno of Lower Hertfordshire AKA Hannibal

Handsome King Kevin of Bexley AKA Howling Mad Murdoch 

Were a fun loving bunch of alcohol fueled 30 somethings. Glug Glug....

This is all a bit of a glug fest for us. So come along and enjoy the ride or should that be crash and burn!!!

Keep watching. More soon...................

Hello fellow Flugtaggers! We wanted to write to introduce ourselves and the cause we are championing. www.extreme-accounting.com is a community of accountants that inject the adrenaline rush of accounting into the everyday activity of extreme sports... Not all accountants are boring and we are going to prove it!

Thanks to our lovely sponsors at CODA, we've calculated that we can just about afford to build The Risk Calculator, which will probably depreciate in value pretty quickly once we take a running jump off that ramp.

To introduce the team we have included a pic below and what a sintilating gaggle of accountants we are. From left to right we have:

James Marshall who is only 30 but has already climbed the rungs of success to become Joint Venture Gas Assets Accountant. A fascinating role and one that no-one really understands! Perhaps he can invent some kind of new bio-fuel to power The Risk Calculator - but we doubt it.

Dan Tarak (the one with the laptop). Dan is a Business Finance Analyst... Very clever! Should be good at calculating weight v's distance ratios.

Sarah Goodley is the female contingent of the team, so she can bring some practicality and sense to proceedings, not to mention some actual hard work. Sarah is 29 and is Financial Reporting Manager at Centrica. We expect a full report after she and the rest of the team manage to drag themselves out of the Serpentine...

And last but not least, the big cheese, the main man, the honcho - our Pilot. Marc is the baby of the group at 27 and boasts the perfect accounting role for our Flugtag task - we couldn't believe our luck. He is a Decision Support Analyst! So he should be able to tell us when we are being stupid and when we are being really stupid. You really think this is a good idea Marc? Can you support that? 

We'll add more posts as the build comes together. As yet we haven't built anything, but we're not worried as there is nothing accountants can't do - although engineering is a small handicap! Whatever happens, we reckon it's going to be Awesum!

TTFN

Extreme-Accountants

Well this is the team (from the left) Karl Cedeira, cool surf dude and our navigator, John Fogarty, the boss and team captain(thats me), Tim Diggens, our IT, general fixer and test pilot, Richard Maher, the real country and western boy and team engineer, and the lovely lady in the middle is Lavina Ralston (real aviation expert) who is letting us use one of her hangers for the build (yes its going to be a big one....not the one in the picture). The two guard dogs secure the hanger and will eating anything or person on sight..

If anyone wants to meet the team or just watch some very cool aircraft then just email me at jmpfogarty@msn.com and I will give you directions (10mins from Cirencester)

We are also raising money for Marie Curie Cancer Trust so we may charge you a quid for a coffee and five for a kiss with our cool surf dude Karl, (boys or girls allowed..) 

Anyway catch you all later

John