Human Powered Flight

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Category: Planes
Tags: airplane, flight, human power, ornithopter flight, plane, world record
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Uploaded Sep. 24, 2010 by

thebuzzkiller69dude

These guys now hold the world record for sustained human powered flight. I'm impressed but at the same time that was a car pulling the plane in the beginning. I would think that should be against the rules of 'human powered' flight.

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fullbag - a year ago
All jokes aside...this clip states they at best have had a self-sustained flight just under 20 seconds maximum. Is this really as far as technology has come over 6,000 years?
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mykylc - 4 months ago
What the hell was the point?????????????
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xXFIREBIRDXx - a year ago
meh buy a motor you cheep prick !! pay gas tax like everyone eles !!
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donnywal - a year ago
I could fly my kids f'ing big wheel if you tie it to a car, hop on the big wheel on let's try it.
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donnywal - a year ago
what a f'ing waste of time, CAR NEEDED, WTF? You can get any plane to fly with a car, that's a glider. And a big gust of wind will snap that thing.
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panderbear - a year ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G They crossed the English Channel in 1979.
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OdekiKazusa - a year ago
Human powered flight happened more than two decades ago. I believe they flew several miles not just 20 seconds.
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PaulAfreekan - a year ago
just lol...
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jakub052111 - a year ago
lovely wings .....
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Awfabee - a year ago
Break has it wrong. This is a record for a human-powered ornithopter - a flapping-winged craft. Human-powered, propeller-driven aircraft have flown much, much farther. This is a record for an incredibly inefficient form of flight. So... yay?
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djosersex - a year ago
Nice pice of crap
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mrarroyo - a year ago
Fav - weirdly fake wish was real
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MCou812 - a year ago
Afghan Airforce is alive and well !
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mal12345 - a year ago
Frank Herbert would be jealous.
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chyeahhhhhhhh - a year ago
I collected coins on that thing during super Mario sunshine, back in my Plummer days.
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painful100 - a year ago
how about some bicycle pedals spinning some fans. This thing aint gonna happen
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dima30 - a year ago
Best thing ever
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chingon06 - a year ago
LOL canadians..
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ssejhill - a year ago
Interesting plane ... but definitely NOT a record for human powered flight. That honor goes to the MIT Daedalus which flew a distance of 71.5 mi (115.11 km) in 3 hours, 54 minutes. Your 19 sec flight doesn't cut it!
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- Awfabee - a year ago
  @ssejhillYou are correct. This is a record for a human powered ornithopter - a flapping wing craft. Daedalus was propeller-driven. Break, as usual, screwed up. Still, you have to wonder, what is the point? It's a record for incredibly inefficient flight.
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Elite_92 - a year ago
It's pretty good for a prototype.
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fknhostile187 - a year ago
The Canadian Space Program is finally making progress!
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lareStriker - a year ago
my midnight or your midnight?
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Dallasguy - a year ago
Very cool
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Yourmother5124 - a year ago
You-didnt-build-the-balloon.-Y
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mickeymike - a year ago
They invented a glider.
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