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This category contains links to sites related to human-powered aircraft (HPA), including

• Human-powered fixed-wing aeroplanes or seaplanes
• Human-powered blimps or airships
• Human-powered hovercraft
• Human-powered helicopters (HPHs)
• Human-powered ornithopter (flying by flapping).

The Gossamer Condor was history's first successful human powered airplane, winner of the Kremer Prize, and invented by Dr. Paul MacCready.

Resources in This Category

• Human Powered Ornithopter

  http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/kazuho/index-e.htm
  Human flight through flapping. Features overview of projects including Karura, photo galleries, and contacts.

• Velair

  http://www.skytec-engineering.de/hpa.htm
  Features information, specifications, photos and history of the first aircraft to fly from Munich airport (MUC) runway in the summer of 1990.

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• Home > Sports > Cycling > Human Powered Vehicles
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