Red Bull Flugtag 2008

Today is Tampa's Red Bull Flugtag competition. About 36 local teams will jump off a 30-foot-high ramp with their homemade planes and try to fly. One of the teams competing is Orlando's The Wrong Brothers consisting of Jason, Mark, An, Keegan and Jan.

Watch the interview with Jason, The Wrong Brother's pilot, by the Orlando Sentinel.

Red Bull began Flugtag (German for "flying day") in 1991. The record for the farthest flight — 195 feet — was set in Austria in 2000. The U.S. record, set last year in Nashville, is 155 feet.

The teams are judged on creativity, showmanship (each team will perform a skit before flying off the ramp), and distance. The first-place team will receive a pilot's training course, the second-place team will get skydiving lessons and third place will learn to paraglide. All teams will receive a trophy.

If you are in the Tampa area, go check out this event at the City Park at Tampa Convention Center. Good luck Wrong Brothers!