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David Cervenka - Team Captain   (415) 377-4890

Jessica Mandoki - Red Bull Media   (310) 460-5346

For immediate press release (October 30, 2003):

Piers 30 and 32 along the San Francisco waterfront provided the backdrop Saturday for the city's annual Red Bull sponsored Flugtag contest. Flugtag translates from German into “flying day”, and in English it is a comical event celebrating the science of flight and the bravado of courage. David Cervenka captained the team “Running of the Red Bulls” to 3rd place in this wacky event.

The first Flugtag took place in Austria in 1991. Since then, the dream of flying hand-made machines into unsuspecting bodies of water has spread like wildfire. From Ireland to San Francisco, inspired pilots have come out of the woodwork to construct their own outrageous craft.

Cervenka’s team, which consisted of 3 other bay area friends, Brian Bennett (pilot), David Schaeffer & Shannon Dunn, worked for months planning, building, and most importantly training for that flight into the freezing Bay. The team trained for 2 months with world renowned Russian gymnast and acrobat Sergey Zenov to perfect their timing, pose, and trajectory. In parallel, the team built a 18 by 13 foot tall anatomically correct bull, complete with a custom teeter designed and perfected with the legendary Russian gymnast.

The team arrived on Saturday morning, clad in fiesta white attire and passing out red sashes to all those who supported them. As flight time approached the crew were chased around the flight deck by their smoke breathing bull for the entertainment of the crowd. Then for the finale, Cervenka, Schaeffer and Dunn stood on the rear-end of the bull, jumped off on to the teeter and launched Bennett over 30 ft from the head in a single bucking motion. The hard work paid off, as Saturday’s antics resulted in a stunning 3rd place victory and nabbing the $1500 purse that went with the honors.
Last year's winner, Team El Toro Guapo, returned with a design where three team members serve as a weights to catapult a fourth person into the bay.

For more information on the construction and the team, see Cervenka’s team website at http://www.cervenka.net/flugtag/ or visit the Red Bull site at http://www.redbullflugtagsf.com/eventinfo.php.