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Dutch team launch human-powered plane project
The two-rider Icarus aircraft will attempt to win some of the �100k Kremer prize fund...
Specifically, reports Netherlands HPV website Ligfiets.net, the team from the Techical University Delft will be after the �50000 'Marathon' prize, which involves a human-powered flight over 42km in an hour or less. There's a few other details, too - see this page about the Kremer prize for more details.
As far as I know Team Icarus are the first to plan a tandem human-powered aircraft. According to ligfiets.net, the craft will support two riders in a recumbent position, in a vehicle weighing about 45kg and with a wingspan of 40m or so, with a 4m propellor.
The team is looking for sponsors - details are on the team's website, but only in Dutch at present.
We wish them the best of luck...
Posted on 10 May 2004
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| From: Rodger (rodger) on 14 May 2004 | | 'Toucan' built by Hertfordshire Pedal Aeronautics starting in around 1965 as one of the contendors for the original Kremer prize was a tandem. It made three flights on December 1972 the longest being 62m. It crashed in July 1973 while trying for the slightly revised Kremer prize and was retired shortly after this. See ' pp45-46 'Gossamer Odyssey' by Morton Crosser - the story of the prizewinning Gossamer series. |
| From: ian fardoe ([email protected]) on 16 May 2004 | reading further through the website who's going on the nekid cycle ride through London on June 12th?
http://www.worldnakedbikeride.org/uk/index.html |
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