List of human-powered aircraft

List of human-powered aircraft

This is a list of human-powered aircraft
Name Abhilasha HPA Aerocicloplano Aerocicloplano Airglow HPA Bauer Bird Betterfly Bionic Bat Bird Ornithopter Bliesner 1 to 3 1978 Year 2009 1906 1907 1990 1973 2009 1983 Country Netherlands Italy Italy Cambridge, UK USA UK California, USA UK Seattle, USA Designer / Builder Jesse van Kuijk Aldo Corazzo Luigi Teichfuss John and Mark McIntyre Ted Bauer David Bardford Paul MacCready Jr. Bryn Bird Wayne T. Bliesner Two prototypes built, but record of any flights. unsuccessful pre-cursors to Bliesners more successful efforts. No.3 crashed during towed flight attempts. 100 yards 1 mile, crashed during testing. a few hops, crashed during testing. 300 yards Flight trials were unsuccessful, eventually abandoned after persistent ground-handling damage and a violent gust of wind entering the hangar where the aircraft was stored. 'Biplane Ultralight Research Device' 'Biplane Ultralight Research Device II' 40 pilots,some inexperienced. Notes

Bliesner 4 Bliesner 5 Bliesner 6 Bliesner 7 Boffin-Coffin

1979 1980 1980 1981 1988

Seattle, USA Seattle, USA Seattle, USA Seattle USA New Zealand

Wayne T. Bliesner Wayne T. Bliesner Wayne T. Bliesner Wayne T. Bliesner Walther

BURD BURD II Chrysalis HPA

1972

USA

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Parks, Youngren & Massachusetts Institute of Technology

19741976 USA 1979 USA

Chyeranovskii BICh-18 Cochkanoff HPA Coolthrust HPA

1937

USSR

ONly known to have flown as a glider with the wing mechanism locked. Cochkanoff Kyoto University Flew over 18km at the 2005 Birdman rally in Japan. A two-seater with twin propellers built in Ottawa, but no record of any flights. MIT Daedalus Project.

1974 2005

USSR / Russia Japan

Czerwinski HPA

1967

Ottawa, Canada

Czerwinski

Daedalus 87

1987 Nov

USA

Drela / Massachusetts Institute of Technology Drela / Massachusetts Institute of Technology California Polytechnic State University California Polytechnic State University Roger Hardy

Daedalus 88

1988 Mar

USA

MIT Daedalus Project.

Da Vinci II

USA

Da Vinci III

1989

USA

- 8 second flight not controlled by pilot.

Dragonfly HPA

1975

Prestwick Scotland

short flights

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UK P.K. Green, W.F.Ball and M.J.Rudd / Weybridge MPAG Originally nickname 'Dumbo' at Weybridge. When taken over by John Potter at RAF Cranwell, it was renamed Mercury. with the Movement Science Faculty of the University of Maastricht 37 yards. 222 yards

Dumbo-Mercury

1971

DUT Icarus 001

Netherlands

Delft University of Technology

Egret I Egret 2 Egret 3 Farman Aviette HPA Flycycle Frost Emmett HPA Gamera HPH Gamera II HPH Gerhardt Cycleplane Gossamer Albatross

1973 1974 1974 1912

Japan Japan Japan France

Kimura / Nihon University Kimura / Nihon University Kimura / Nihon University

1974 1970s and 1984 1972 2012? 1923 Auckland, New Zealand USA USA Dayton, Ohio, USA John Frost / University of Auckland

University of Maryland University of Maryland Flight Test Section at McCook Field

Human Powered Helicopter Human Powered Helicopter 20-foot (6.1m) hop

1978

California, USA

Paul MacCready Jr. & Peter Lissamen. Kremer Prize for first cross-channel flight.

Gossamer Condor 1976 (Pasadena version) Gossamer Condor (Mojave version) Gossamer Condor (Shafter airport version) HV-1 Mufli 1976

Pasadena, California, Paul MacCready Jr. & Peter Lissamen. One short hop only, in the car park of the USA Pasadena Rose Bowl. Mojave, California, USA California, USA Paul MacCready Jr. & Peter Lissamen. (Mojave version)

1977, March

Paul MacCready Jr. & Peter Lissamen. Kremer Figure-Eight Prize 21 August 1977.

1935

Frankfurt, Germany

Helmut Haessler & Villinger

MUSKELFLUG INSTITUT (Institute of Muscle-Powered-Flight) This was set up in 1935, within the Gesellschaft Polytechnic, Frankfurt, director - Oskar Ursinus - 779 yards from bungee launch operated in 20mph winds

HVS HPA Hardy HPA Hartman HPO Hill Flying Wing Hurel Aviette HPA Ibis HPA Icarus HPA Jupiter HPA Kiceniuk Icarus Linnet I

1982

Germany

Hutter/Villinger/Schule Roger Hardy

1958

UK

Emiel hartman Hill

1974

France

Maurice Hurel

1978 1977 1972 1977 1966

Japan California USA UK USA Japan

Nihon University Taras Kiceniuk Christopher Roper Taras Kiceniuk Prof. Kimura / Research Institute of Science and Technology, Nihon University

further development of the Jupiter - Stork line. flights with towed launch 1171 yards30lb payload

47 yardsheight 9 feet.

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Japan Prof. Kimura / Research Institute of Science and Technology, Nihon University Prof. Kimura / Research Institute of Science and Technology, Nihon University Prof. Kimura / Research Institute of Science and Technology, Nihon University Alexander Lippisch 100 yardsheight 5 feet.

Linnet II

1967

Linnet III

1970

Japan

34 yards

Linnet IV

1971

Japan

66 yards

Lippisch 1929 Man Powered Ornithopter Liverpuffin

1929

Germany

flown by Hans Werner Krause.

1972

UK

Dr Keith Sherwin

Built from the remains of the Puffin II by students from Liverpool University led by Dr Keith Sherwin

Malliga HPA Man-Eagle 1 Man-Eagle 3 Man-Eagle 4 Maruoka Man-Powered Screw-Wing Machine Mayfly McAvoy MPA-1 Michelob Light Eagle Micron HPA MiLan'81 MiLan'82 Monarch A

1967 1982 1983 1985 1902-3

Austria Seattle USA Seattle USA Seattle USA Tokyo, Japan

Josef Malliga Wayne T. Bliesner Wayne T. Bliesner Wayne T. Bliesner Katsura Maruoka [1] short flights a.k.a. 'Bliesner 8' Kremer Speed Course

1985 1970 1986

Essex, England USA USA

Brian Kerry James M. McAvoy Drela / Massachusetts Institute of Technology Georgia Tech. 37 miles. Onboard test equipment

1976 1981 1982 1983

Nottingham England Peter Wright Japan Japan USA Naito / Nihon University Naito / Nihon University Drela / Massachusetts Institute of Technology Drela / Massachusetts Institute of Technology OXAI Aircraft Company / Mao Yiqing Gnther Rochelt & Schoberl Gnther Rochelt & Schoberl Nick Goodhart Two different Prizesfirst passenger Kremer Speed Prize PTwo seater with separate pods - pilot control tasks shared 645 yards 1800 yards 29 Flights

Monarch B

1983

USA

First Kremer Speed Prize

Mozi HPA Musculair I Musculair II

2009 1984 1985

PRC MunichGermany MunichGermany Newbury, Berks, England France

Newbury Manflier 1979

Nieuport Aviette 1921 Northrop Institute of Technology HPA Pedaliante Pelargos 2

1921

1972

USA

Malcolm Smith / NIT

two-seater - not completed

1937 1983, Dec

Italy Mohlin Switzerland

Enea Bossi & Vittorio Bonomi Horlacher/Mohlin/Dubs

? 40 unaided flights ? 1100 yards

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Mohlin Switzerland USA Horlacher/Mohlin/Frank Daniel Perkins 875 yards pre-cursors to the Reluctant Phoenix

Pelargos 3 Perkins Inflatable HPA Phillips Mk.1 HPA Phillips Mk.2 HPA Posniak HPA Poulain/Farman Aviette Privett HPA PSU Zephyrus Puffin 1

1985, May 1959

1976 ?

Humberside England Ron Phillips

First female pilot.

1976 ?

Humberside England Ron Phillips

Two seater

1936 1921

Italy France

B. Posniak Gabriel Poulain / Farman

USA USA 1961 UK

Privett Pennsylvania State University Wimpenny, Vann & Hatfield Man Powered Aircraft Club Wimpenny, Vann & Hatfield Man Powered Aircraft Club Paul Illian Daniel Perkins The culmination of Daniel Perkins attempts to build a viable inflatable man powered aircraft, flown inside the R100 airship hangars. 993 yards

Puffin 2

1965

UK

875 yards,height 17 feet,turns

Raven Project

2001

USA RAE Cardington, UK

Reluctant Phoenix 1950's and 60's

Rickman umbrella 1909 wing Royal Spoonbill 1983 to 1987 1937

UK

Rickman

RAE Cardington, UK Germany Singapore

Robert Le Johnno-Johnson / NZHPFG

Never completed due to a re-design after being vandalised.

Seehase MD-2 Singapore University Man powered Aircraft 1 Singapore University Man powered Aircraft 2 SM-OX Snowbird HPO Stewart HPOs

Hans Seehase Singapore University students / Dr Keith Sherwin Of the two projects only one flew.

Singapore

Singapore University students / Dr Keith Sherwin

Of the two projects only one flew.

1969 2010 1959 -

Japan Canada UK

Sato Maeda University of Toronto Alan Stewart

31 yardsheight 6 feet

several unsuccessful human powered ornithopters built between 1959 and 1979 651 yards - Re-designed Jupiter from the UK. 2290 yards First independently observed unaided flight. Flown by Derek Piggott.

Stork A Stork B SUMPAC

1976 1976 1961

Japan Japan UK

J. Ishii / Nihon University J. Ishii / Nihon University Ann Marsden, Alan Lassiere & David Williams / Southampton University Man powered Aircraft Committee Naito / Nihon University Naito / Nihon University Frederick E. To / Air-Plane Co. Ltd. [2]

Swift A Swift B To Phoenix Inflatable HPA 1982

Japan Japan UK

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Radlett, Herts, England Pressnell / Hertfordshire Pedal Aeronauts Pressnell / Hertfordshire Pedal Aeronauts Oskar Ursinus 2 seater -Bryan Bowen & Derek May

Toucan 1

1972

Toucan II

19741978 Radlett, Herts, England 1925 Germany

Ursinus 1925 HPA Vlair 88 Vlair 89 Vertigo HPH

1988 1989 1987

Stuttgart, Germany Stuttgart, Germany Yeovil, England

Peer Frank Peer Frank Andrew Cranfield

3390 yards 3390 yards Human powered helicopter - short hops, but transmission problems slowed development. 200 yards - One flight only at Krugersdorp, Transvaal, South Africa Heights of 15ft at Calais-Marck airport due to Belgian authorities refusing permission to fly. 300 yards at 4 feet - elevator not used Human powered helicopter

Vine HPA

1962

South Africa

S.W. Vine

VMM HPA

1974

Belgium

Verstralte/Masschelin/Masschelin

Wright HPA Yuri I HPH Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft Zinno Olympian ZB-1

1972 1994 1934

Nottingham England Peter Wright Japan Berlin, Germany Nihon Aero Student Group (NASG) Engelbert Zaschka

1976

North Lt.Col. Joe Zinno, USAF (Ret.) KingstownR.I.USA

First controlled flight in Americas [Bernhard C. F. Klein, USA, millpab=aol.com, 05.07.2008 This pedalpowered "aircraft" was designed and built by Lt.Col. Zinno, USAF (Ret.) On his fourth try on April 21, 1976, at Quonset Point, RI., Joe Zinno barely got off the ground for a few seconds. The machine was damaged in a hangar by a gust of wind, coming in through the open door.]

References
[1] Mikesh, Robert and Shorzoe Abe. Japanese Aircraft 19101941. London: Putnam, 1990. ISBN 0-85177-840-2 [2] Taylor, John W. R.. Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1982-83. Jane's Publishing Company. London. 1983. ISBN 0-7106-0748-2

Bibliography
Mikesh, Robert and Shorzoe Abe. Japanese Aircraft 19101941. London: Putnam, 1990. ISBN 0-85177-840-2 Taylor, John W. R.. Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1982-83. Jane's Publishing Company. London. 1983. ISBN 0-7106-0748-2

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