Sikorsky Prize finally won!

[Jim Logajan]

After 33 years of being an open challenge, a Canadian team finally nabbed the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize for a human powered helicopter:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57593417-1/human-powered-helicopter-finally-takes-sikorsky-prize/

 

[VanDy]

That's pretty awesome!


-VanDy

 

[Geico266]

That is amazing. Unusual and very creative design.

 

[ajstoner21]

Wow that's pretty cool!

 

[masloki]

Pretty cool that they didn't try to just replace the engine with a human in a standard helicopter design, but instead went clean sheet. Huge rotors with an overhead support structure, makes a rather unique layout.

 

[guardrail]

Boy that's thinking outside the box, very cool!

 

[tinerj]

toy quad copter brought to life

It was interesting to me that it was geared so he used strength rather than speed

 

[Challenged]

Nice bit of engineering, indeed.

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