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2013-09-01, 13:27
Human-Powered Helicopter Completes Record-Breaking Flight [Video]
After going more than 30 years unclaimed, the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize for human-powered flight has a winner. Canadian startup company AeroVelo successfully kept their pedal-powered helicopter, Atlas, aloft for the 60 seconds required for the prize title.
Competition rules also state that the helicopter must rise to an altitude of at least 3 meters (about 10 feet), and must remain within a horizontal area no bigger than 10 meters (33 feet) square.
The Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helico
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DiscoverT...ViTNV32zc/
After going more than 30 years unclaimed, the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize for human-powered flight has a winner. Canadian startup company AeroVelo successfully kept their pedal-powered helicopter, Atlas, aloft for the 60 seconds required for the prize title.
Competition rules also state that the helicopter must rise to an altitude of at least 3 meters (about 10 feet), and must remain within a horizontal area no bigger than 10 meters (33 feet) square.
The Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helico
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DiscoverT...ViTNV32zc/
