Oct 5, 2012
Wright Bros. Revisited
Love seeing how we are back to investigating human powered flight.
Records are made to be broken, and a bunch of students at the University of Maryland are smashing the ones they just set earlier this summer. They're so close to winning the crazy-hard American Helicopter Society's Igor I. Sikorsky Human-Powered Helicopter competition — watch an amazing eight-foot flight past the jump.
Henry Enerson, a freshman at UMD, is one of a handful of pilots taking turns furiously pedaling in the cockpit of the Gamera II, a human-powered quadcopter. The team has already met one major requirement of the Sikorsky Prize this week, hovering for 65 seconds.
Now if they can hit one minute and get a little higher than 8 feet -- to exactly 3 meters, or 9.8 feet -- they'll win the $250,000 32-year-old prize.
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Way cool.
ReplyDeleteI would not mind hoping up and down, creeping forward with every 8 seconds of flight... it is way cool that they are going to manage it for a full minute..!
ReplyDeleteSounds like it would be both frustrating and very cool.
ReplyDeleteWe humans enjoy a challenge, sometimes the accomplishments are not about money, although it must be nice to be shooting for that prize.
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