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Falling with style

It’s been a while since my friends decided to participate as Team Kiss in the Red Bull Flugtag in Miami. The big day was Saturday, and I went down there just to see them. (Well, mostly.)

I took the train to Bayfront Park and got there a little late but before Team Kiss went on. During this time (I found out later), they and some of the other groups were posing for photos with audience members. My friend Nick (a.k.a. Gene Simmons) said that they were probably the most photographed team, a fact that didn’t escape the notice of the other teams: “You guys know they’re not really Kiss, right?”

After a series of silly dances, impressive flights, and epic fails, Team Kiss with their giant flying bass guitar had their moment in the spotlight. After a brief introduction in which the guys pretend to chug some Red Bulls and then pretend to rock out on fake guitars, they pushed their craft over the edge with one of them staying on as the pilot. He actually got pretty good distance. The rest of the guys jumped into the water for good measure.

After a few more teams’ flights and a finale that involved a flyover by a Coast Guard helicopter, the crowd thinned, and I found not only Team Kiss but also the rest of their posse. We stuck around for the awards ceremony (they didn’t win), and then followed the team up to their room in the swanky InterContinental Hotel, just footsteps away from where the Flugtag was.

In their room, we congratulated them on a job well done and then left them to rest. They deserved it.

I was busy recording a video, so I didn’t get to take pictures of their actual flight, but I’ve found some on Flickr: 1, 2, 3. Check ‘em out.

Via Andy: Some guy gets really, really inappropriately excited about a double rainbow.