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Structural Trends in the Development of Man Powered Aircraft

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

W. Czerwinski
W. Czerwinski*
Affiliation:
National Research Council, Canada
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In the past few years, man powered flight has become a reality. The remarkable achievements in England by the Hatfield Man Powered Flight Group prove that man may take off and fly with his own muscle power without external aid.

Such a possibility seemed very remote to the early pioneers of man powered flight in the late thirties in Germany and Italy. Even after the Second World War, some of the designers of these pre-war aircraft still believed that the take-off of a man powered aircraft would never be possible without some outside assistance.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 71 , Issue 673 , January 1967 , pp. 9 - 13
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1967

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