Images.

The tedium of reality is crashing down hard on the Pie in the Sky crew today, but at least we have a river of pictures and video to keep us going.

We were ready.

Safety meeting at Castaways. The other teams were a blast to hang-out with. Red Bull kept us busy all weekend, while simultaneously managing to put their logo on everything which was not nailed down. We’ll add after-party pictures later.

Participants never got a good sense of how packed the event really was, even from the platform it seemed like there was no end. This shot from Red Bull tells the story, amazing. © C.Santacroce/Red Bull Photofiles

Dance? In-front of 80,000? Don’t think any of us would have believed we would do that in our lifetimes.

The money shot. This is the exact picture we imagined, with 3 essential elements: Actual flight, Red Bull logo on the cart visible as it falls away, and pepperoni being jettisoned off the top.

Guess all those skydives & flying lessons helped after all! Could not have delayed any longer before pitching the nose back up. It was really difficult to get a sense of the attitude of the wing, had I understood it was so nose-down I could have gone much further. Typical hindsight 20-20 crap.

Other things to ponder:

• Have we created a lifestyle brand?
• Where should we have our viewing party?
• Our cart flew 40’ - what place would it have gotten all by itself?
• Are The Perfect Getaway guys & gals REALLY mobsters?
  
• Even though we flew second farthest, we were awarded third. Guessing that means we were either not very CREATIVE or lacked SHOWMANSHIP, (ie: we’re lame).
• Vinnie’s upcoming therapy - thanks Velcro or Trees?
  
• How many coupons will be redeemed at Lou’s?
• Is it strange that we’ve got ideas for Flugtag09?