Red Bull may not actually give you wings, but it does make a huge amount of money for the company who produces the stuff, and over the years the company's blown a bunch of it buying some pretty sweet aircraft to play around with.
It looks like the profit margins are pretty high in the overly caffeinated sugary water business, and while I may not personally enjoy what Red Bull sells, I can't help but be impressed with how the company has decided to spend (some of) its piles of cash. Hangar 7 at the Saltzburg Airport is stuffed with meticulously restored vintage aircraft, sexy modern aircraft, and the odd F1 car. The Bell Cobra helicopter in the picture above exemplifies Red Bull's philosophy on acquiring cool stuff:
Chief rotary-wing pilot Siegried Schwarz spent more than 20 years flying as a mountain rescue pilot in Austria. Today he flies in airshows for the Flying Bulls.[Red Bull co-founder Dietrich] Mateschitz once asked Schwarz what kind of helicopter he wished was in the hangar. Schwarz responded that it would be great to fly a Bell Cobra in front of the crowds. It wasn't long before Mateschitz added this Bell TAH-1F Cobra to the stable.
Good choice, I'd say.
We've got a gallery of some of the coolest stuff in Red Bull's hangar just below, take a look (there are a few more over at Wired, too). PHOTOS
Via Wired
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