Visions of human flight could soon soar beyond Leonardo da Vinci's sketches into reality. A crowd-funded project looks to make the first human-powered helicopter capable of winning a $250,000 prize ...

Unbelievable Human Powered Machines gen H-4 gen H-4, personal single-seat helicopter. This aerial vehicle consists of only a ...

Students at University of Maryland are using pedal power to break a human-powered helicopter record (but hopefully to break nothing else). As noted on the video description by the students who make up ...

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More than 50 University of Maryland students are attempting to test fly a human-powered helicopter and could capture a world record. The team began testing the helicopter named Gamera on Wednesday ...

Dry maple seeds on their branch. Their wings allow the seeds to spin and glide on the wind, carrying them away from their parent tree. Every other Friday, the Outside/In team here at NHPR answers ...

Students from the Clark School of Engineering at University of Maryland made history with their human-powered Gamera II helicopter this weekend, keeping the aircraft hovering in the air for 50 seconds ...

When we think about 11.4 seconds, it doesn’t really amount to much, but in the world of female human-powered helicopter flight, it’s a new record. The record was set by University of Maryland biology ...

In case you haven’t heard, the Sikorsky Prize, an aeronautical challenge to build a human-powered helicopter that can hover at three meters for a full sixty seconds, has been claimed. This incredibly ...