Human-powered aircraft
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A human-powered aircraft is an aircraft belonging to the class of vehicles known as human-powered transport.
MIT Light Eagle human-powered aircraft, predecessor to the MIT Daedalus aircraft
Zaschka's Human-Power Aircraft, Berlin 1934
SUMPAC: The first successful human powered aircraft
Human-powered aircraft display at the US National Air and Space Museum
MIT Daedalus
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The MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department's Daedalus is a class of three human-powered aircraft that included Daedalus 88, which, on 23 April 1988, flew a distance of 115.11 kilometres in 3 hour
Human-powered aircraft
…the MIT group continued to develop their designs, with the Monarch and Monarch-B aircraft succeeded by three follow-on designs, the Light Eagle and two MIT Daedalus aircraft, the Daedalus-87 and Daedalus-88. The current distance record recognised by the FAI was achieved on 23 April 1988 from Iraklion on Crete to…
MIT Daedalus human-powered aircraft in flight during testing at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
Daedalus 87 aircraft on display in the Dulles International Airport Terminal B transportation concourse