Human-Powered Helicopter Team Sets New Records For Altitude and Flight Duration

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By timothySep 1, 2012, 10:09 am223 pts
First time accepted submitter daltec writes "The $250,000 American Helicopter Society Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition prize, unclaimed since 1980, is now within Gamera II's reach. On Thursday, the University of Maryland's Clark School of Engineering team unofficially satisfied two of the…

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