human-powered aircraft

There are human-powered aircraft being designed and made now.

As of 2008, human-powered aircraft have been successfully flown over considerable distances.

Designing a successful human-powered aircraft is difficult because a very large power to weight ratio must be achieved.

Humans who tow up a manned kite form one type of human-powered aircraft.

His human-powered aircraft was actually a ground effect vehicle that flew only inches above the ground.

Early attempts to build human-powered aircraft had focused on wooden designs, which proved too heavy.

The Gerhardt Cycleplane has been called the world's first successful human-powered aircraft.

He became involved in an aviation project - designing and constructing, with the assistance of university students at Auckland, a human-powered aircraft.

In 1934 Engelbert Zaschka completed a large human-powered aircraft.

A human-powered helicopter is a type of Human-powered aircraft and is designed to carry at least one person.

At the time, the Mufli and the Pedaliante were the most advanced Human-powered aircraft ever built.

While there, he started riding for Team Miyata, as well as provided the power for the university's human-powered aircraft.

The flight holds official FAI world records for distance and duration for human-powered aircraft.

Freddie To was a member of the Kremer prize committee who started a project to produce a human-powered aircraft to compete for the prize.

A human-powered aircraft (HPA) is an aircraft powered by direct human energy and the force of gravity.

The first human-powered aircraft to successfully fly was the Gossamer Condor in 1977, a fixed-wing airplane with a propeller.

Later, Kiki becomes a local celebrity and flies in formation with Tombo on his human-powered aircraft, a propeller-rigged bicycle.

He was the founder of AeroVironment and the designer of the human-powered aircraft that won the first Kremer prize.

A human-powered aircraft (HPA) is an aircraft belonging to the human-powered vehicles.

One of the most infamous multiplanes was the 1923 Gerhardt Cycleplane, a human-powered aircraft with seven sets of wings.

The Gossamer Condor was the first human-powered aircraft capable of controlled and sustained flight, making its first flight in 1977.

The progress of the human-powered aircraft design has phased more and more toward the numerical analysis of the original parent aircraft based design.

August 23 - Gossamer Condor demonstrates that it is the first human-powered aircraft capable of controlled and sustained flight by winning the Kremer prize.

Video of first human-powered aircraft (SUMPAC)

A lightweight human-powered aircraft made a successful series of test flights today in preparation for a world-record distance attempt that also will recreate the mythical flight of Daedalus.