With Joe Rígoli, Pepe Regueira, Rafael Taibo, José Carabias. It is present in the SM, through the complex phase in CKM matrix. But the hour “flight” was long enough.ĭemski’s feat was approved by The Guinness Book of World Records and will be listed in the 1997 United States edition to be released in October, according to John Hansen, research manager of Guinness Media. Zocta: Sólo en la Tierra se puede ser extraterrestre: Directed by Joe Rígoli. CP violation is required to generate a cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry. Demski’s flag was down before the relay team ever saw it. The powerful gusts tore the double double-stitched nylon flag in three places, including a gash nearly 100 feet long. As we were bringing it down three more cables snapped,” said Demski, who operates a mail oder bumper sticker business. One cable snapped and the flag had to be lowered. “It was just like a rifle shot,” Demski said.
Slowly and methodically the stars and stripes rose from atop a six-story building beneath the dam and unfurled in patriot splendor. Seven other cables were used to guide the flag up. The 128,775-square foot banner was pulled up with three air tuggers (winches) with three half-inch steel cables. The Olympic torch relay was passing through and Demski wanted to pay tribute to the flame bound for Atlanta. On May 1, Demski’s 1.36-ton flag, with stripes nearly 20 feet wide and stars measuring 16 feet point-to-point, was raised up the side of the dam on the Nevada-Arizona border. But a brief flight at the Hoover Dam this spring put the flag in a different category: The largest flag flown. This website uses cookies that are either necessary or that measure website performance. resident’s flag had never “flown.” It was just the world’s largest flag. Here’s an excerpt from a report about it published by the Times Leader of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on 28 August 1996:ĭemski’s 505-foot-by-255-foot American flag, which was featured in the Guinness book in 19 as the world’s largest flag, climbed to new heights. The photograph is a vertical view taken downstream from the dam.Īt the time, this flag - dubbed Superflag by its owner Tom “Ski” Demski - was the largest flag in the world.
The flying of the flag was part of a ceremony in which the 1996 Summer Olympic torch was carrried across Hoover Dam. The flag itself weighed 3,000 pounds and was hoisted by 3 separate cables located at the top of the Dam. May 1, 1996, a 505 by 255 foot American Flag was flown from the downstream face of Hoover Dam.
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