If you haven’t heard, the Red Bull Flugtag, "flying day" in German, is coming to Chicago this weekend. This one day event, full of nutty people and their amusing creations, takes place at North Avenue Beach this Saturday and will feature teams of, perhaps mentally unsound individuals, dressing up, performing a skit and then jumping off a platform thirty feet in the air into Lake Michigan. They will be judged based on their flight's distance and on the creativity and showmanship demonstrated in their skit, costume and machine.
The stakes are high. This Satuday's champion team wins a paid trip to the Red Bull air race in 2009, runners up win a skydiving outing and a Flugtag viewing party (Woo-Hoo! -Ed.).
Twenty-nine teams will compete in Chicago this weekend, with seven actually hailing from the Windy City. Participants say they're in it for the small modicum of fame (Infamy? -Ed.) that comes from leaping off a 30-foot platform with a homemade flying machine into the lake.
We follow the Chicago team that call themselves The Perfect Getaway as they prepare for the event
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