RE: First Human Powered Helicopter! (Video)
July 12, 2013 at 5:00 am
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2013 at 5:02 am by paulpablo.)
(July 12, 2013 at 3:45 am)Big Blue Sky Wrote: Source: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Pushin...story.html
-What allows the 31-year-old to defy gravity is sheer human power, delivered to the craft's four rotors through the bicycle pedals he steadily pumps throughout his flight.
-It's that fragile machine, built by Reichert's Canadian team, which has now won a long-coveted international prize that lay unclaimed for years.
-The winning hand-built helicopter — nicknamed Atlas — is huge, measuring nearly 47 metres across, but also surprisingly light for its size, at just 54 kilograms.
I didn't realize a helicopter could fly with propellers only going at that speed. One step closer to doing what Elliot did in E.T.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
