First Human Powered Helicopter! (Video)

[Big Blue Sky]

[paulpablo]

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.

[pocaracas]

Awesome!!

[Jackie]

Great, more needless crap a company can sell to rich narcissists.

[Doubting Thomas]

I remember back during the 80's when the first human powered airplane took flight.