Red Bull Flugtag is one of them🤪
Imagine a team spending months building a huge homemade flying machine, inventing a name, costumes and an entire performance, then pushing it onto a ramp and... launching it towards the sea.
No engine. No propeller. No guarantee that the machine will stay airborne for more than a few seconds.
📅The format began in Vienna in 1992 and has since been staged more than 185 times around the world. In Turkey, it has almost become an urban tradition: following editions in 2008, 2010, 2013, 2019 and 2022, Flugtag returned to Istanbul for the sixth time on 23 August 2026.
The sixth Flugtag was not tied to an anniversary. The reason was simpler and more enjoyable: after a four-year break, Red Bull decided to bring this wonderfully wild celebration back to Caddebostan Sahili.
The scale in 2026 was impressive: around 8,000 teams applied, but only 30 reached the launch ramp. Participants had to do more than assemble something resembling an aeroplane. They had to design and build it themselves, and only human power was allowed in flight.
After the competition, the entertainment continued🪩
Homemade aircraft were far from the only attraction drawing people to Caddebostan.
▪️The programme featured Red Bull athletes including Toprak Razgatlıoğlu, Deniz Öncü and Bahattin Sofuoğlu, who put on a special show on the water.
▪️A separate highlight was Issa Kalfon's Jet Suit performance: a person literally taking flight above the water in a jet-powered suit.
▪️Radikal and Yung Ouzo provided the music.
Would you dare to build your own aeroplane and launch it from a ramp?😄
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