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I think this would be a great contest for any country that has sufficient snowfall and cold weather.
Concrete toboggan
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I've heard of concrete canoe competitions.
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Holmenkollen, the great ski jump in Oslo, Norway, the landingslope ends in a small lake. (You can see it at Holmenkollbakken - Wikipedia[^].) In summer, they sometime set up a jump at the bottom of the slope, and arrange acrobatic competitions for jumpers doing the landingslope on roller-skis, doing saltos and twists of all kinds, diving into the water.
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I have been there some years ago, fantastic 
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Turns out, you have to have money before it can be tested 
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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I tried to calculate how many gumballs my money would buy, but got a divide-by-zero error.
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Where do you get free gumballs?
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Did you find it taxing anyway?
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I once worked for a company named "Flunker", guess what: they went bankrupt 
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There's a trucking company here call Fluke[^] - their motto? "If it's on time it's a Fluke" 
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Yeah, saw the film "Cool hand fluke"
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That reminds me of the German airplane maker Junkers.
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I know them, they make fine boilers
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I once visited a "Flugausstellung" museum near Trier in Germany, they had a lot of interesting planes, among which a Ju 52. Sadly there were only parts left of the notorious Stuka, it seems no Stuka's survived WWII.
Nevertheless I can recommend the museum: Flugausstellung Junior 2017[^]
[Edit] Two intact Ju 87s survive, see: Junkers Ju 87 - Wikipedia[^]
modified 29-Jan-18 14:40pm.
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For everyone in the midwest (of the US) I highly recommend a drive to Dayton, OH and a multi-day visit to the National Museum of the USAF[^] at Wright-Patterson AFB.
Pretty freaking cool!
I nearly wet myself when I got to walk up to the Lockheed SR-71A[^]
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IIRC, there is an SR-71 at the Smithsonian Museum near Dulles Airport. I was once on a very long trip abroad, and I allowed myself to get bumped a day for 400 EUR CASH  , so I had a few hours to kill, and the nearby museum fit the bill wonderfully.
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Isn't the Enterprise still out there somewhere around Dulles?
FWIW there's also an SR-71 at the Evergreen Aviation Museum[^].. for those on the left coast.
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According to this link[^], there are SR-71 planes at the following locations:
Alabama:
A-12 #06930 - On display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL.
A-12 #06937 - On display at the Southern Museum of Flight, Birmingham, AL.
A-12 #06938 - On display at the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park, Mobile, AL.
Arizona:
SR-71A #17951 - On display at the Pima Air Museum, Tucson, AZ.
California:
A-12 #06924 - On display at the Blackbird Airpark in Palmdale, CA.
A-12 #06927 - On display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, CA.
A-12 #06933 - On display at the San Diego Aerospace Museum, in San Diego, CA.
SR-71A #17955 - On display at the AFFTC Museum, Edwards AFB, CA.
SR-71A #17960 - On display at the Castle Air Museum near Atwater, CA.
SR-71A #17963 - On display at Beale AFB, CA.
SR-71A #17973 - On display at the Blackbird Airpark, Palmdale, CA.
SR-71A #17975 - On display at the March Field Museum, March AFB, CA.
SR-71A #17980 - On display at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center as #844.
Florida:
SR-71A #17959 - On display at the USAF Armament Museum, Eglin AFB, FL.
Georgia:
SR-71A #17958 - On display at the Museum of Aviation, Robins AFB, GA.
Kansas:
SR-71A #17961 - On display at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson, KS.
Louisiana:
SR-71A #17967 - On display at the 8th Air Force Museum, Barksdale AFB, LA.
Michigan:
SR-71B #17956 - On display at the Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum in Kalamazoo, MI.
Minnesota:
A-12 #06931 - On display at the Minnesota Air National Guard Museum, MN.
Nebraska:
SR-71A #17964 - On display at the Strategic Air and Space Museum, near Ashland, NE.
New York:
A-12 #06925 - On display at USS Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in the New York City Harbor.
Ohio:
YF-12A #06935 - On display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.
SR-71A #17976 - On display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.
Oregon:
SR-71A #17971 - On display at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, OR.
Texas:
SR-71A #17979 - On display at the USAF History and Traditions Museum, Lackland AFB, TX.
Utah:
SR-71C #17981 - On display at the Hill Aerospace Museum, Hill AFB, UT.
Virginia:
SR-71A #17968 - On display at the Virginia Aviation Museum in Richmond, VA.
SR-71A #17972 - On display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA.
Washington:
M-21 #06940 - On display at the Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA.
United Kingdom:
SR-71A #17962 - On display at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, England.
I've seen the one in Nebraska, which was very interesting. Also a B-1 bomber at the same location. I spent 3 hours there, could have spent a day or more.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I now have a blot on my record.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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If I squint it looks like an A.
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Forgot to sign the paper. 
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I'd that what they base it on?
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