Human powered Helicopter flight achieved

[Ombligo]

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

[cbelt3]

That's quite the gizmo. Looks like some of those 'dawn of human flight' pics.

[Article Accelerator]

More information here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVelo_Atlas

[hal]

What a wonderful design. I'm sure the founders of the award never imagined such the thing...

[Psurfer]

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/i...ed-the-us/

No red-eye flights, though.

[colonel panic]

CBS Sunday Morning did a piece on it a couple of weeks ago. Very cool contraption.

[jimbrady]

What part was 3 meters off the ground?