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?....

VOTE FOR THE WRONG BROS. YOU KNOW IT MAKES SENSE!

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

This is our final blog before the event. It's time comment on our fellow competiors as they pack up and make their way to the big smoke. See you Saturday!!!

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The flying Aquanauts took a day out of their busy schedule to go Diving, which is apparently what the diving club does (between drinking sessions) Darryl not only mangaged to land a Lobster for Tea but brought up the plate and spoon to eat it on!

Big Thanks to DIVE125 and the Our W boat for their support and for the Divers who donated some cash for the RNLI

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At last, the Wrong Brothers title sequence is online:

http://www.youtube.com/user/thewrongbr0s 

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.

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Bless you All,. Sister Audax Interfactor XX

Just thought I'd write a quick blog to keep our team in people's minds!  We are actually doing ok at the moment... kind of.  I went away for a long weekend last weekend and was therefore unable to do any work for almost a week, bad timing I know, but what are you gonna do?!

Unfortunately this did somehow manage to put our team captain in a little bit of a stressed out state by the time I returned!  All is a lot calmer in the Pharaoh's Phantasy garage now though, and I have progressed nicely with the sphinx over the last 3 days.  We are having issues with where the wings are going to go, first of all they were supposed to be on top, then we decided underneath would be better, then on top again, and now I think we're back to underneath!  We'll see what happens over the next few days!

Well, that's it for now, I'll leave you with a pic of me in my costume (and Polly)!

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....

VOTE FOR "THE WRONG BROTHERS" YOU KNOW IT MAKES SENSE!

It is so close now that we are really really up against it now, but thats not a negative comment its just a statement of our intention to blow the opposition away. We have failed miserably uploading videos - some of the other teams must have more time than sense on their hands but should also be congratulated on their input. You will just have to settle for some stills of our amazing crew.

 This is Samuel,

Cheif designer and aerodynamics engineer trying  to explain what the hell is going on and how we are going to make a table fly!........The rest of us were only interetsed in playing  with Plastic cakes and Stuff! 

NOTE: You can see the dissappointment in Kates face when she realised that yet again, another  lunchtime meeting included fake food.

Captain Coker from the Loo-ny Tunes here. seeing as the boys (we think they're boys) from 'I luv wood' think our videos are a bit boring, I thought we'd write some words to go with our next 'boring' video. I reckon we've put more effort into our blog then some teams have put into their whole builds! some teams obviously prefer drawing little cuddly beavers. Ah bless! U really should get out more boys! Also what bloke would want 'beaver' as a middle name? Where we come from, beaver is definitely refering to females. Ask the blonde bimbos! But if that is what you want to call yourselves, U carry on! Hope your builds are going well boys (of girls) see you soon. Loo-ny Tunes

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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.

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Hello All,

 We have been so busy studying the principles of ergonomics and aerodynamics that we have slightly lost track and forgotten about the website - I hope that now that we have uploaded a sneak preview of our flying table(!) you'll be suitably impressed and show your forgiveness by voting for us

 I will shortly upload pictures of our team and the incredibly sexy Alice in Wonderland!

The pictures are still showing quite a bland undercarriage but we have yet to lay the table so to speak - check back soon to see the transformation......

Atlast the premier of team Tally Ho !!!!!

The Flying Aquanauts show their plans to Red Bull Racing's Formula One driver Mark Webber and he gives it the big Thumbs up.

The Build is going well, we should be ready for wind tunnel testing soon. she has got to the size where we need to move to our larger build facility.

Bit of a low flying experience for this team compared to day to day life, but with the experience behind them and the State of the art technology (none of this wood stuff, very old hat!) carbon fibre and mylar all the way, apart from the odd windsurfer.

 Jim

Paul (Frankie) Franklin 37 3/4

Known Jimbo forever, he has got me out of many scrapes

  Darryl

Darryl "Buzz" Naylor 39

U.S. Astronaut/Lunar Scientist

Missions - 16

Support Crew for Apollo 15 moon landing

Gained Physics B.Sc. (Hons) From Imperial College London

Trained in Aeronautics at NASA

Now lectures Astrophysics at Havering University

Hobbies include Scuba Diving and Phillumeny

  Pierre

Pierre "LePlant" Walsh 37

US Airborne Heli Pilot for 12 years

Served in several hot zones flying Black ops

Met Jimbo years ago when I had to extract him after he ditched at sea

Can't wait to dive off the ramp into the serpentine

Good Luck to all you teams, have a good fight over second place!

One of our team members fractured his wrist yesterday =[ and is highly unlikely to be able to join us on stage!

We'd like to say he broke it in some amazing death-defying test run of the swan, but the simple truth is he fell over and it snapped.. heroic no?

Bad news for him, good news is the swan now has wings.. feathered wings! 

Dear all,

We are feeling the pressure now.... not long to go and so much to do! but it has to be said our tree is growing nicely, watering everyday has really helped as has the gentle pruning......! We have unfortunately been far to busy to be able to bore people senseless with inane video blogs.  However there may still be time after the next cracking installment!!

Hopefully some of you kind folk will join us in exchanging a little banter. We had tried to have some fun with the Loony Tunes guys but it took them 3 weeks to cotton on! Please try harder!

Good luck with the rest of your builds and looking forward to meeting up with you all to have a really great day!

Regards

I luv wood team

www.iluvwood.com

...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…

A quick afternoons work, with plenty of Beer (Red Bull) breaks

This is the first of our video updates

Hi fellow Flugtaggers,

We've been a bit quiet over here at Metro, home of team Jetro. Well actually we've been panicking, building a plane is not as easy as we first thought and we were very concerned at one point that the editor was going to have to build it in his shed. Thankfully we are now totally technically up to speed and have adapted our brilliant hand and paper aeroplane idea and even built a little model of it.  Our pilot Bel (Metros fashion writer) remains remarkably calm and even commented that she is not nervous at all. Lets see how she's feeling nearer the time.

Best of luck to all of you over the next few weeks, this is the hard bit I think. We're hoping to run some stories in the paper soon so keep an eye out

Lots of Love

Metro

xx