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Talos
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 05/28/2012 : 07:30:43
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A memorable human powered flight was made by Bryan Allen (an American cyclist) when he flew his pedal powered fixed-wing aircraft (named Gossamer albatross) across the English channel on the 12th June 1979; a distance of 23 miles (36 km). Since then, we have been flying human powered fixed-wing aircraft on a regular basis.
The longest flight using human power to date, was carried out by Kanellos Kanellopoulos (a Greek cycling champion) in 1988, when he flew a fixed-wing aircraft from Crete to the island of Santorini, a distance of 74 miles (119 km) in under four hours. His aircraft was named Daedalus, in commemoration of a Greek mythological flight from Crete to Santorini.
No one has flown a human powered ornithopter that can fly like a bird, from the ground up, using flapping wings only.
This is mankind's oldest dream and it still hasn't been acheived. |
Edited by - Talos on 05/28/2012 07:40:28 |
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