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Human powered Helicopter flight achieved - Ombligo - 07-15-2013
AHS Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition has confirmed that a team from Canada has become the first to achieve solely human powered flight. The team was awarded a $250,000 prize.
The team flew for 64.1 seconds, reaching an altitude of 11 feet (3.3 meters) and stayed inside a prescribe box. The helicopter was powered by a single plot peddling to keep the four rotor, 154-foot wide craft in the air.
http://vtol.org/hph
http://www.youtube.com/user/HeloSociety
Re: Human powered Helicopter flight achieved - cbelt3 - 07-15-2013
That's quite the gizmo. Looks like some of those 'dawn of human flight' pics.
Re: Human powered Helicopter flight achieved - Article Accelerator - 07-15-2013
More information here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVelo_Atlas
Re: Human powered Helicopter flight achieved - hal - 07-15-2013
What a wonderful design. I'm sure the founders of the award never imagined such the thing...
Re: Human powered Helicopter flight achieved - Psurfer - 07-15-2013
I think a Hybrid is the way to go. Add human pedal-power to this (which sans fuel flew for over 24hrs), and you've got something!:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/07/inside-the-solar-powered-plane-that-crossed-the-us/
No red-eye flights, though.
Re: Human powered Helicopter flight achieved - colonel panic - 07-16-2013
CBS Sunday Morning did a piece on it a couple of weeks ago. Very cool contraption.
Re: Human powered Helicopter flight achieved - jimbrady - 07-16-2013
What part was 3 meters off the ground?