Showing posts with label Flight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flight. Show all posts

Monday, June 25, 2012

Human-Powered Helicopter Breaks Record

... of flight time for a human-powered rotorcraft. The flight was still under a minute, and was only barely off the ground. I believe this also captures the "oddest-looking aircraft" award:


If your CPU and graphics card can handle it (my box is over 5 years old and cannot), watch full-screen for maximum visual disorientation. :-)

AFTERTHOUGHT: in my bicycling years, we used to distinguish cyclists between "spinners" and "pile-drivers" based on their preferred gear at maximum speed. This fellow is definitely a spinner.

AFTERTHOUGHT: add this to the list of things about which Samuel Johnson said, "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."

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