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Man-Powered Flight—A New Approach to an Old Dream

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

S. Richmond
S. Richmond*
Affiliation:
Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd, Brough
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There is an old saying in the aircraft industry that you can make a brick fly, if you give it enough power. How true this is I would not care to say, but it is certainly true that the worries of the designer are lessened if he knows that he can always give the throttle a little extra push, if all else fails.

This is not to say that the design of a conventional, high powered, aircraft is a simple, hit or miss affair, that would be ridiculous, but it does serve to show the special difficulties faced by the builders of a man-propelled aircraft who have less power available to them than is used by a small electric fire.

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Supplementary Papers
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 73 , Issue 703 , July 1969 , pp. 615 - 619
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1969 

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