Hermosa Beach pilot to fly in homemade dragon aircraft at Red Bull Flugtag
Mike Perrin, Evan Squire, Justin Davis, Kristi Davis, and Ryan O’Shea will be compeating at the Red Bull Flugtag on Saturday in Long Beach. Photo submitted by Ryan O’Shea Five “Game of Thrones” fans walked into a bar on Cinco de Mayo and walked out with an unexpected idea drawn on a napkin. They would design a dragon-shaped aircraft to fly at the 2013 Red Bull Flugtag. Kristi Davis, a Hermosa Beach resident and pilot for Sky West Airlines, would pilot the homemade craft. An ad for Flugtag on the barroom TV spawned the idea. “We were sitting around having a good time and we started talking and it came to us that we could do that too,” said Davis. “Anybody can submit an application, and if they think that you can pull off what you say you’re going to do and they like your idea, then they select you. It took them awhile to decide about us.” The friends had been to the event in Long Beach in 2010 and understood what was involved in the sky-high competition. “We were watching the crafts go off, and while a few of them actually flew, so many of them went off and fluttered down without really going forward, and a lot of them just fell apart as soon as they hit the air,” said Ryan O’Shea…
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