Participants generally spend about two months designing and building their flying machines.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

I would create little flying machines and fly around the city in my dreams.

Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.

Plus, it's pretty damn funny.

Basically, there are so many sporting events out there that people can watch from the bleachers or on TV, but they can't participate in themselves. So we wanted to create a fun, spectator friendly, event where the average Joe is the hero of the day.