Woody - Team Captain
The tyrannical unstoppable force behind the bird. Likes music festivals, bike riding and beer.
Kes - Chief Grafter
Makes the things which stick onto other things which make bigger things which join together to make a kestrel.
Matt - Pilot
Rearrange - screw, loose, got.
Gord - Ground Crew
Brings the others down to earth when they get ideas above their station, and makes up a general lack of sense.
Fez & Ivvy
Constantly trying to eat things, run off or be on camera.
BBC Radio Sheffield Interview 1
23 June 2011
Woody and Kes drop into the Toby Foster breakfast show to explain what they'll be doing at the Red Bull Flugtag in Leeds.
BBC Radio Sheffield Interview 2
8 July 2011
Toby Foster chats to Kes and Matt on Yorkshire's biggest breakfast show.
BBC Radio Sheffield Interview 3
18 July 2011
Kes and Woody drop into the studio to catch up with Toby after their epic flight.
BBC Look North
23 June 2011
In the early days before Matt became the pilot, BBC Regional News came to visit the team.
ITV Calendar News
15 July 2011
ITV regional news came to see the Come On Kes guys with only a few days to go before flight day.
Minster FM
15 July 2011
Gordon went into the studio to give the guys at Minster FM an idea on what we were up to.
ITV At The Event
17 July 2011
Calendar were on site and keen to chat about how we had got on since last time they came to see us.
Trinidad TV
30 June 2011
RB Flugtag Trinidad TV show give Come On Kes a Shout-out after Come On Kes were 'twined' with the Flying Fish team (10 minutes in)
Wakefield Express
15 July 2011
Newspaper cutting
Yorkshire Post Online
30 June 2011
Yorkshire Post news wanted an idea on what the Red Bull Flug Tag is all about and what we were doing to make Yorkshire proud.
Yorkshire Evening Post
24 June 2011
Newspaper cutting
Yorkshire Evening Post (online)
19 July 2011
Yorkshire Evening Post were keen to find out about the plucky bunch of Barnsley lads intent on building a giant kestrel.
Barnsley Chronicle 1
24 June 2011
Newspaper cutting
Barnsley Chronicle 2
15 July 2011
Newspaper cutting
Barnsley Chronicle 3
22 July 2011
Newspaper cutting
Barnsley Chronicle Online 1
10 June 2011
From the very begining the Barnsley Chronicle took a keen interest in how Come On Kes would be representing Barnsley.
Barnsley Chronicle Online 2
15 July 2011
Barnsley Chronicle came for a catch up, meet the new pilot and see how we were getting along on the build.
Barnsley Chronicle Online 3
19 July 2011
Kes's flight cut short as the trolley fails to detatch properly!
Woody on Popmaster
4 July 2011
Woody has a go at the hardest quiz on BBC Radio 2 and explains the idea to Ken Bruce.
Barnsley Calling Trinidad
3 July 2011
After our shout out Trinidad TV, we wanted to return the favour and wish Flying Fish all the best.
Red Bull Filming Kes
30 June 2011
Red Bull came down to the secret location in Barnsley filming the L.A.R.D files.
Kes gives you wings
15 July 2011
We got carried away drinking too much Red Bull, we had to get the fire brigade out.
Tor on Tour
15 July 2011
Tor came down to see how we were preparing for the big day.
Wetherby News
15 July 2011
Newspaper cutting
You've been Kes carded
30 June 2011
Woody hands out Red Bull Flugtag 'Come On Kes' business cards to 300 cars at the Sheffield Arena.
Bit more build
24 June 2011
We start to get the wing structure together after all the maths bit. Red Bull really did give us wings!
Testing the undercarriage
7 July 2011
We had to be sure it was up to the job. Matt and Kes put it through it's paces.
Come On Kes on the European tour
8 - 11 July 2011
Woody had a weekend away in the Netherlands to go to a music festival. He spread the word of our mission featuring on a Netherland TV & Radio station.
Come On Kes in Italy
10 July 2011
No limits to where this bird can get herself (taking her stickers with her after she left!)
Braintree & Witham Times
6 July 2011
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