The 2nd Red Bull Flugtag took place on Saturday June 7th 2008 in Hyde Park, London! And we were there.

On Saturday, the Extreme-Accountants, sponsored by CODA, took part in the Red Bull Flugtag in Hyde Park. It's a huge event that attracts 80,000 spectators, and was hosted this year by Radio 1's Chappers and Dave and judges included Jodie Kidd and Carrie Grant from Fame Academy.

The team was fantastic and came a very respectable 22nd out of 41 teams. It was made up of four very brave E-A's:

Sarah Goodley, Marc Angell, James Marshall and Dan Tarak who work in the finance department at Centrica. They were particularly pleased that the plane came in under budget, although their assets depreciated pretty quickly when they plunged into the Serpentine.

They wowed the crowd with the best performance of the day getting almost full marks although Strictly Come Dancing's Craig Revel-Horwood docked us one point (because he could)... It didn't go down well with the crowd.

Scroll down for pics and links to the team's dance routine, performed to the Flying Lizards rendition of 'Money', and flight on the day. Notice the poise of the umbrella as Marc leaps from The Risk Calculator! (*NB. No accountants were hurt in the making of this ;-))

We've added a discussion to the Forum for anyone with comments on this. And you can get it rated on You Tube and join our Facebook group.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQm6nOtng-Q

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3IM_f0F_J2Y

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Arnold Chiswick
Major, 1st Airborne Insolvency Division
Founder and Sec., Extreme-Accounting