NEWPORT, Ky. — Set up along the Ohio River were nearly 40 teams, participating in Red Bull Flugtag in the greater Cincinnati area on Saturday.

What You Need To Know

  •  Red Bull Flugtag took over Ohio River in Greater Cincinnati area Saturday

  • Nearly 40 teams competed with made flying machines

  • These flying machines would go off an elevated flight deck and land in the Ohio River 

  • People could watch from the river, from Cincinnati, from bridges and from Newport as plane-like creations took off

“We’re going to fly today,” Ashley Snowden said.

She was part of a group of five women, who’ve all known each other since school, taking part in Red Bull Flugtag Cincinnati. Flugtag translates to “flying day” and this crew was eager to see their flying machine take off. They make up Team Top Gums, a take on "Top Gun" and "Golden Girls."

“We love the movie and we love the 'Golden Girls' and we decided this would be our design,” Snowden said.

They said this machine they created to fly took time; more than 100 hours went into it. But they were among many other teams also taking flight in some themed flying contraption. Each team took their machine off an elevated flight deck and would land into the Ohio River.

People could watch from boats in the river, in Cincinnati, along the Purple People Bridge and in Newport as teams took flight. It was a chance for people to become engineers and pilots, an experience Snowden said enticed her and her friends.

“Because we do crazy things like this all the time,” she said. “This is sort of our M.O. — we just think of something and we do it.”

This definitely will not be the last wacky thing this crew takes on.

“Whatever it is, whatever they ask me to do, I’m saying yes to,” Snowden said. “That’s how we get ourselves into these things."