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THE FLYING AQUANAUTS CAME 2ND!! see below for some pictures and check out the video We took part in the 2nd Red Bull Flugtag in London, the Event was on Saturday 7th June in Hyde Park in the centre of London, we built a flying Yellow Submarine. We have raised a lot of money for the RNLI still counting it all up, Big thanks to everyone who contributed to the event and the build and a special thanks to Darryl and Jim for dreaming it up and letting the club tag on. By the way, Congratulations to Frankie on the birth of his son! |
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Here are some pictures of the build so far;
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Meet the Flying Aquanauts Team
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
James (jimbo) Denby 38 Joined the RAF at 21 been a pilot for 15 years Just returned from an exchange with the American marines On leave at the moment which means we have a full time plane builderMet Pierre and Frankie through work and have know them for 15+ years
Met Darryl on a diving expedition to South china sea where he was out hunting for lost ships 
Rob
Rob (Vidiot) Summers 36 3/4
Joined the RAF at 19 been a Heli pilot for 11 yearsWhizz with the video editor
Thorn in Jimbo's side , 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
(each video is around 5Mb so may take a while to load right click on it to make it bigger)
We did It! see it from Darryls perspective!
Collected some money!
Darryl catches his tea, and his plate and a spoon and all with a clay pipe in his mouth!
J im and Darryl do some advertising on the radio
Mark webber of Red Bull Racing F1 encourages the team
They are queueing up to wish us well, check out these guys!
The Build Continues, and so does the industrial espionage
The Dagsac Choir recorded the theme tune, why not sing along?
Jim and Darryl doing their best Benny Hill impressions!
Our first video Blog!
