Human-Powered-Flight

Kenneth Huff and friends have hit Kickstarter to help fund a bid to snag the yet-to-be-claimed Sikorsky Prize for human-powered helicopter flight.

The Atlas helicopter is the latest human-powered helicopter to compete for the Sikorsky Prize.

The tweaks and modifications made to Gamera II since June's new national record for human-powered helicopter flight have resulted in the team breaking the 60-second barrier and reaching an altitude of over nine feet, although not in the same flight.

The National Aeronautic Association has confirmed a new national record of 49.9 seconds for human-powered helicopter flight for the Gamera II flight on June 21.

Gamera II pilot Kyle Gluesenkamp has smashed last year's human-powered helicopter flight time of 11.4 seconds by a considerable margin, and now begins the anxious wait while the NAA validates his new record of 50 seconds.

The Gamera human-powered helicopter team at the University of Maryland's Clark School of Engineering has announced the first test flights of a redesigned craft which is hoped will smash existing records and claim the elusive Sikorsky Prize.

A Dutch engineer has created a pair of semi-human-powered mechanical wings that appear to let him actually fly ... just not very high.

A team of 50 graduate and undergraduate students have created a human-powered helicopter that's hovered into the record books for the longest flight yet achieved in the U.S.

The aeronautical world is mourning the loss of visionary inventor, designer and engineer Dr Paul MacCready, the "father of human-powered flight".

December 3, 2004 Humankind has dreamed of flight since ancient times, but until now most attempts to fly by flapping wings, either using human muscle or mech

It's a dream shared by anyone who has ridden a bicycle up a steep hill - human powered flight. NASA achieved this feat as part of the Daedalus project over a de