Human Powered Aircraft
Human Powered Aircraft
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I'm doing a study on human powered aircraft but i'm struggling to find much data on existing designs. Does anyone know of any good resources on the subject?
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RE: Human Powered Aircraft
Normally the people on e-tips don't like doing research for others, but I kinda enjoyed this one.
RE: Human Powered Aircraft
I've done a lot of related searches on google etc which has given me the background info however its technical data i'm struggling to find.
RE: Human Powered Aircraft
I would guess your best bet is to ask the people who are working on that directly, or go to organizations like AIAA for published papers.
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Also I'm sure Gossamer Condor or whatever it was called has been the subject of several papers and books, and I'm pretty sure I've seen plans.
generally a search for Paul MacReady or Aerovironment should get you somewhere.
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RE: Human Powered Aircraft
how about this site ...
http://www.nasg.com/hpa/refer.html
are you planning on competing for this new prize ? are you looking for full technical descritpion on previous (and current) models ? if so, i think you're dreaming, that projects, past and current, are going to fully disclose their hard earned data. i think you most you'll get are generalisations (like you probably already have).
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http://www.bhpc.org.uk/
http://www.ihpva.org/HParchive/issues.htm
http:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Powered_Vehicle
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RE: Human Powered Aircraft
Imagine how much cheaper and more accesible that would be than any powered aircraft or air-towed glider!
I have some ideas on a radical VTOL HPA design but no way to test them.
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RE: Human Powered Aircraft
RE: Human Powered Aircraft
Check out Roger Ruppert's work at :-
http://ww
This guy used to be very competitive with free flight model aircraft and then went on to apply his composites experience to lightweight gliders.
RE: Human Powered Aircraft
still, very neat looking gliders
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I doubt that it's possible to make an UL plane human powered. Im flying an zephyr 2000 UL which has a glide ratio to 16:1, witch is good performance for UL, but still not good enough for human powered flights I think.
Per Magne
RE: Human Powered Aircraft
This link is to a part 103 legal sailplane.
http://www.glidersport.net/about.html
Also solar powered sailplanes have been produced.
that are true sailplanes. A character at Ramona Ca has a solar powered sailplane with 5000watts of generating capability. It uses a 6hp motor.
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