Pedal Powered Aircraft

[Guest Chainsaw]

ummm , yea...

 

September, 2006Soon, anyone who likes to pedal will be able to fly.

 

If you can pedal a bicycle 5 miles, you will be able to pilot the Flycycle.

 

No Olympic athletes required.

 

This design will bring Human Powered Aircraft to a recreational level.

 

The intent of the Flycycle Project is to build a Human Powered Aircraft that is 100% practical, the first HPA to be built in Canada.

 

Flycycle, with a totally new flying wing design began as an after class, off campus, student project in Toronto, Ontario in October of 2003. The initial design and the fabrication of the airfoils and struts, using carbon fiber rod, fiberglass, Kevlar? cord and Lexan? was done by student volunteers in Toronto. In June of 2006, these elements and our mobile workshop were moved to a hanger at the Municipal airport in Tobermory, Ontario at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula for final assembly and attachment of the Lexan? skin. Test flights will take place at the Tobermory airport.

 

Since the hanger is unheated, work has been halted until next spring. The target for the first test flight is July of 2007.

http://www.flycycleart.webcentre.ca/index.htm

 

 

[Guest WillMikoyan]

sounds interesting... I could use that instead of riding my bike to school everyday!

 

 

[Guest Glenn]

Sounds like something the Flintstones would have