Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps

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Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps

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Hi Folks

Been offline for a while,
now catching up on what I'd missed.

Surprised to see no mention in FS forums of the following,
and as I'm not a TV viewer, have no idea whether broadcast. *-)



You're all aware of Leonardo's helicopter,
that infeasibly kludgy concept of human powered levitation.

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Effectively pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

Over 500 years on, someone's done it - AeroVelo Atlas Human-Powered Helicopter B-)



Whilst other HPH's have flown,
AeroVelo was the first to achieve 60 seconds flight, 3 m altitude, and remain within a 10m box.

Thus winning the American Helicopter Society's, (AHS), Sikorsky Sponsored,
Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition prize of $250,000.



HTH
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Re: Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps

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Not what you'd call practical but certainly impressive ;)

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Re: Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps

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Hi Paul,

I did see this on one of the News channels absolutely brilliant,

Roger.
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