The influence of 2014’s world record-breaking flight is evident as a new generation of homemade flying machines takes to the skies – and 80,000 spectators experience some of the craziest teams yet.

Local flavours rule the day, as teams dress up their homemade flying machines in honour of local delicacies, native festivals and more.

Watch as some of the world's most interesting and creative flying machines ever built fly (or crash) into a man-made lake appropriately created for sea planes to take off and land.

The 'summer capital' of Bulgaria welcomes a crowd of 20,000 to watch teams of amateur aviators fling themselves off a 6m-tall runway into the air… and, for some sooner than others, into the Black Sea.

Perfect conditions make it a great day for flying in Switzerland, and 50 teams are ready to try their luck keeping crazy homemade flying machines in the air for as long as possible over Lake Zurich.

The homemade flying machines are of questionable design, but 40 dauntless teams will try to fly them over the Ohio River anyway. Could anyone possibly make it all the way to Indiana?