Human Powered Chopper Finally!
The rules of the American Helicopter Society Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Challenge , specify that the craft must fly for 60 seconds, must rise to an altitude of at least 3 meters (about 10 feet), and must remain within a horizontal area no bigger than 10 meters by 10 meters (33 feet by 33 feet).
Sounds doable right?
Well hundreds of teams have been working on it for *33 years* and finally just pulled it off last week.
On June 13th, 2013, the AeroVelo Atlas Human-Powered Helicopter captured the long standing AHS Sikorsky Prize with a flight lasting 64.1
seconds and reaching an altitude of 3.3 metres.