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  2. Human-powered aircraft - Wikipedia

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    A human-powered aircraft (HPA) is an aircraft belonging to the class of vehicles known as human-powered transport.. As its name suggests, HPAs have the pilot not only steer, but power the aircraft (usually propeller-driven) by means of a system similar to a bicycle or tricycle: a pair of pedals, moved by the pilot's feet that turns a gear, which then moves a bicycle chain, which then rotates a ...

  3. List of model aircraft manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    The Model Airplane; Model Airplane Factory; Modelworks Direct; Model Factory; Mountain Models; Mugi twinwall polypropylene aircraft; Old Planes; Paperwarbirds; Pilot R/C; RC Factory Czech; Risesoon; Schabak; SIG Manufacturing; Sterling; Stevens AeroModel USA; Stinson Aircraft; Telink (Czech Republic) Tough Jets [2] Twisted Hobbys; Veyron Models ...

  4. MacCready Gossamer Condor - Wikipedia

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    The Kremer Prize had been set up in 1959 by Henry Kremer, a British industrialist, and offered £50,000 in prize money to the first group that could fly a human-powered aircraft over a figure-eight course covering a total of one mile (1.6 kilometers). The course also included a ten-foot pole that the aircraft had to fly over at the start and at ...

  5. MacCready Gossamer Albatross - Wikipedia

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    The aircraft was designed and built by a team led by Paul B. MacCready, a noted American aeronautics engineer, designer, and world soaring champion. Gossamer Albatross was his second human-powered aircraft, the first being the Gossamer Condor, which had won the first Kremer prize on August 23, 1977, by completing a 1-mile (1.6 km)-long figure-eight course.

  6. Paul MacCready - Wikipedia

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    He was the founder (in 1971) and Chairman of AeroVironment Inc., a public company (AVAV) that develops unmanned surveillance aircraft and advanced power systems. AV flew a prototype of the first airplane to be powered by hydrogen fuel cells, the Global Observer. [20] MacCready died on August 28, 2007, from metastatic melanoma.

  7. List of human-powered aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft: Germany: 1934: Engelbert Zaschka: Zephyrus β: Japan: 1997: Ochanomizu Human-powered aircraft study group: Japanese female record set under the FAI rules, 1.004 km in 3 min 3 s. (16 Nov. 1997). Piloted by Chihiro Muraoka – current Japanese female records. Zinno Olympian ZB-1: USA: 1976: Lt.Col. Joe Zinno, USAF (Ret.)

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