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One-flight wonders: Homemade flying machines face off in Moscow

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A team from Rostov has won at the Moscow Festival of Unusual Flying Objects.

A team from Rostov has won at the Moscow Festival of Unusual Flying Objects.

© RIA Novosti . Valeriy Melnikov / Go to the mediabankA team from Rostov has won at the Moscow Festival of Unusual Flying Objects. Their eleven-meter Styrofoam crawfish won over the jury, which included TV host Olga Shelest, Comedy Woman performer Natalia Medvedeva, Europe Plus Radio music editor Maxim Kochergin, and commander of the Russian Knights aerobatic team Demyan Chistyakov.
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A team from Rostov has won at the Moscow Festival of Unusual Flying Objects. Their eleven-meter Styrofoam crawfish won over the jury, which included TV host Olga Shelest, Comedy Woman performer Natalia Medvedeva, Europe Plus Radio music editor Maxim Kochergin, and commander of the Russian Knights aerobatic team Demyan Chistyakov.
© RIA Novosti . Valeriy Melnikov / Go to the mediabankThirty-nine teams from all over Russia came to Moscow’s Strogino District for the festival.
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Thirty-nine teams from all over Russia came to Moscow’s Strogino District for the festival.
© RIA Novosti . Valeriy Melnikov / Go to the mediabankThe jury awarded points for the distance of the “flight” as well as the creativity of the design.
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The jury awarded points for the distance of the “flight” as well as the creativity of the design.
© RIA Novosti . Valeriy Melnikov / Go to the mediabankTeams were also awarded style points for how they launched off the six-meter ramp.
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Teams were also awarded style points for how they launched off the six-meter ramp.
© RIA Novosti . Valeriy Melnikov / Go to the mediabankEach model was launched in its own unpredictable way.
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Each model was launched in its own unpredictable way.
© RIA Novosti . Valeriy Melnikov / Go to the mediabankTeams were not able to test their flying machines before the festival.
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Teams were not able to test their flying machines before the festival.
© RIA Novosti . Valeriy Melnikov / Go to the mediabankThis was the first and last flight for every flying machine.
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This was the first and last flight for every flying machine.
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