geshaw - good luck to your son this weekend. I saw some ads on TV for it while in Austin - looks like fun.
VX crazy - Loved visiting your neck of the woods. Hopefully next trip we can hook up.
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geshaw - good luck to your son this weekend. I saw some ads on TV for it while in Austin - looks like fun.
VX crazy - Loved visiting your neck of the woods. Hopefully next trip we can hook up.
Thanks Tom- he'll need it. I just want him to come out of this thing alive without the Austin PD Dive Team fetching him off the bottom of Town Lake.
Dumke- Do a mapquest for the Hyatt (208 Barton Springs-Austin) and figure that to be the easiest meeting place. If you're coming for the event on Saturday only then these are the current plans I have locked down: I am going to have to take the wife to the hotel around 3:30 that afternoon for a "health rest" until 5. We plan on meeting in the Hyatt lobby a little after 5, maybe grab a cocktail in their watering hole, then walk over to the event next door. Dinner will be once the Flugtag is finished or my son gets carted away to the nearest medical facility-which ever comes first.
Prior to 3:30 on Saturday is still in the air I'm afraid. I suspect early lunch somewhere then a trip to vxcrazy's or Juilian's house (or both). As I said the main thing I need to get done is make sure the little misses gets some rest before heading over to the park.
For sure message me or email me when you know next time and we can arrange a get together!
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Originally Posted by tom4bren
For those attending the event this weekend -I just received this:
(see you all Friday evening)
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Ahoy!
So after two months, the day I've been tirelessly preparing for has come...
Tomorrow (Thursday) morning, I leave for Austin to put the final touches on The Chupacabra Iditarod Sled and ready it for Saturday's Red Bull Flugtag, an event that will undoubtedly catapult both myself, and my loyal team of goats, into the annals of flight history.
For those who are interested in witnessing the event/carnage first-hand, doors open at Auditorium Shores in downtown Austin at 5pm.
The first is jump slated for 6:30pm. (We're jumping 4th.)
And for those of you who cannot make it, WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP!
By texting the number "4" to "72855 [or "RBULL"] between the hours of 7 - 9pm on Saturday, you can cast your vote for The Chupacabra Iditarod Sled as your choice for "Crowd Favorite." And since our craft is about as aerodynamic as your garden variety bulldozer, this is the part of the contest we have our sights on.
So tell a friend, and help us out!
Thank you all for your support and, pending I survive the fall, I'll see you upon my return.
Jeremiah Shaw
-Chupacabra-
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and this was written in today's Houston Chronicle:
Aug. 22, 2007, 10:04AM
Look! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... roach?
By LANA BERKOWITZ
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
Chupacabra Iditarod Sled Team promises blood before it makes its plunge into Austin's Town Lake on Saturday. Texas Roach Wranglers plan to make a splash with a giant roach.
Chupacabra and Roach will be representing Houston in the U.S. Red Bull Flugtag. The competition features human-powered flying craft that are launched off an elevated ramp. Teams of up to five people perform a 30-second skit before the pilot is sent into the air and eventually into the water.
Flugtag — or "flying day" — originated in 1991 in Vienna, Austria, and marketers for Red Bull energy drink brought it to the U.S. in 2002 with a competition in San Francisco. The U.S. flight record of 155 feet was set in Nashville, Tenn., in June. The only other U.S. stop for 2007 is Friday's Austin extravaganza.
David Sutherland, mastermind of the Texas Roach Wranglers, wanted a Texas theme but thought a bucking bronco would be too tame. He will be riding a wild, Texas-size roach.
Sutherland, an Art Car Parade veteran, has spent two months working on the project. On Saturday Sutherland and his assistant, Roddie Shuster, were bugging out — stapling fabric on the body of the 12-foot bug and painting the legs roach-brown.
Jeremiah Shaw, who petitioned for the Dynamo soccer team to be named Houston Chupacabras, will be his team's chupacabra (a mythical devil creature). Dressed in black Lycra, Shaw will ride a sled pulled by teammates dressed as goats.
Team Chupacabra has constructed a sled from a gutted hang glider. The contraption is about 15 feet long with a wingspan of 25 feet. Construction is taking place at the home of the lone Austinite on the team, Bryan Osborne.
Last weekend they were working out how to use the fake blood, but Shaw is most concerned about his outfit.
"I'm trying to figure out how to keep that G-rated because Lycra gets clingy when it gets wet."
lana.berkowitz@chron.com
Hey all Houston VXer's, George, Lisa, Tone, all, sorry I missed the last meeting, I have been really upset with the Isuzu dealership for ruining my transmission and then not fixing the problem and now just not doing anything, so I have not felt up to crippling my VX and it's touchy transmission out to see everybody, but supposedly the dealership is going to rebuild the tranmission pump and see if that fixes the pressure problem that the transmission is experiencing because of their negligence in leaving the VX over one quart low on trans fluid last time they did maintainance on it.
But because of all this I decided to buy a 2nd set off wheels while the VX is out at the dealer sitting there not getting fixed, I will try to pt up pics of the new ride soon. Have fun this weekend in Austin, sorry I can't make this one either I am going home to Waco to see my family for the weekend. Be safe.
Ryan, sorry to hear you are still having problems with the dealership! That is my biggest concern, something like that they can not figure out and I am without a vehicle since the extended warranty is over.
What did you get????? Tell us about the new ride!
Enjoy your weekend with family, you will be in our thoughts!
Bro and I will be heading down after work today to austin. So will be there tonight. I have never been so he said he would show me around some "6th" street i do believe. Anyways lisa Will see you all for lunch tomorrow.
I did not know you guys were coming in town tonight! You need to meet us all at Rio Grand Mexican resturant downtown at 8pm tonight! It was were real world austin was made! its on 3rd and rio grand I believe
Well becasue i was late this morning <shh dont tell boss> we are leaving later so wouldnt be down there till about 10 pm or so :( We will probably leave here maybe 7pm is and actually that would make it around 9pm. Will give you a call if we are close. comming down 35 and will have to google map it or whatever to see where I am going.
A quick thanks for the Austin hospitality. As always I enjoyed the time spent with friends- both old & new. As a quick recap my son came out of the deal unscathed. He entertained the 85,000 strong on both banks (and water) of Town/Lady Bird Lake. One of the many interviews from local television is here. You’ll see his entry several times. Once when you hear “to the moon” hit pause and you’ll see, or sorta see him, in the black outfit & goggles in the back ground. Then the film cuts to the sled launch and finally an interview (Jeremiah Shaw) at the end.
http://www.myfoxaustin.com/myfox/pag...Y&pageId=1.1.1
Was good to meet you Dumke (and your bro)- sorry I didn’t get the chance to see all you on flight day but there was no way to get over to the other bank through the huddle masses. I’m not sure what idiot planned a Texas event in August but I doubt the folks at Red Bull will make that mistake again. The temps had to reach 105 or more.
But all in all it was time well spent.