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Lists of aircraft |
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This is a list of human-powered aircraft by date.
Type | image | Country | Date | Class | Designer / builder | Notes |
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Abhilasha HPA | Netherlands | 2009 | Jesse van Kuijk | |||
AeroVelo Atlas | Canada | 2013 | Helicopter | Todd Reichert; Cameron Robertson | Winner of Igor I. Sikorsky Human-Powered Helicopter Challenge with 64 s controlled flight, reaching 3.3 m above ground. | |
Airglow HPA | UK | 1990 | John and Mark McIntyre | |||
Bauer Bird | USA | 1973 | Biplane | Ted Bauer | Built by Bauer's eight-grade students at San Gabriel Academy.[1] | |
Betterfly | UK | 2009 | David Barford | 950 m max. distance. Capable of 120° turn. Very stable and easy to fly | ||
Bionic Bat | USA | 1984 | Paul MacCready Jr. | Two Kremer speed challenges won, doing 1500 m in 163.28 seconds on 18 July 1984 and 143.08 seconds on 2 December 1984. | ||
Bird Ornithopter | UK | Ornithopter | Bryn Bird | Two prototypes built, but no record of any flights. | ||
Bliesner 1 to 3 | USA | 1978 | Wayne T. Bliesner | Unsuccessful precursors to Bliesners more successful efforts. No. 3 crashed during towed-flight attempts. | ||
Bliesner 4 | USA | 1979 | Wayne T. Bliesner | 100 yards. | ||
Bliesner 5 | USA | 1980 | Wayne T. Bliesner | 1 mile, crashed during testing. | ||
Bliesner 6 | USA | 1980 | Wayne T. Bliesner | A few hops, crashed during testing. | ||
Bliesner 7 | USA | 1981 | Wayne T. Bliesner | 300 yards. | ||
Boffin-Coffin | New Zealand | 1988 | Don Walther | Prone pilot position; tandem wing; pusher propeller. Flight trials, commencing in 1987, were unsuccessful, eventually abandoned after persistent ground-handling damage and a violent gust of wind entering the hangar where the aircraft was stored. | ||
Chyeranovskii BICh-18 | USSR | 1937 | Only known to have been launched as a glider with the wing mechanism locked, but flown at least once with the wings operated by the pilot after a launch as a glider. | |||
Cochkanoff HPA | USSR | 1974 | Orest Cochkanoff | |||
Cook Musfly | UK | 1977 | David Cook | Two-place weight-shift tailless HPA. Incomplete | ||
Cranfield Vertigo | UK | 1987 | Andrew Cranfield | Human-powered helicopter; transmission problems slowed development. | ||
CT-2.2 RockHopper2 | Japan | 2005 | Yoshiyasu Hirano / Coolthrust | Flew over 18 km at the 29th Japan international Birdman Rally in 2005 piloted by Sosuke Tanaka. | ||
Czerwinski HPA | Canada | 1967 | Czerwinski | A two-seater with twin propellers built in Ottawa, but no record of any flights. | ||
DaSH PA | USA | 2015 | Alec Proudfoot | [2] | ||
Da Vinci II | USA | 1988 | Helicopter | California Polytechnic State University | ||
Da Vinci III[3] | USA | 1989 | Helicopter | California Polytechnic State University | 7 s, height 0.2 m, flight not controlled by pilot. | |
Druiff-Neate Cycloplane | UK | 1909 | built by Messrs. C. G. Spencer & Co. | |||
Dumbo-Mercury | UK | 1971 | 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. | ||
Dumoulin tracteur pour la navigation aérienne | France | 1904 | Biplane | Dumoulin | A human-powered circular-winged biplane with Archimedean screw propellers turned by hand.[4] | |
DUT Icarus 001 | Netherlands | Delft University of Technology | With the Movement Science Faculty of the University of Maastricht. | |||
Egret I | Japan | 1973 | Kimura / Nihon University | 37 yards. | ||
Egret 2 | Japan | 1974 | Kimura / Nihon University | 222 yards. | ||
Egret 3 | Japan | 1974 | Kimura / Nihon University | |||
Farman Aviette HPA | France | 1912 | ||||
Flycycle | 1974 | |||||
Frost Emmett HPA | New Zealand | 1970s | John Frost / University of Auckland | Revisited 1984 | ||
Gamera HPH | USA | 1972 | Helicopter | University of Maryland | ||
Gamera II HPH | USA | 2012 | Helicopter | University of Maryland | Duration 65 s, height < 1 ft | |
Gerhardt Cycleplane | USA | 1923 | Multiplane | Flight Test Section at McCook Field | 20-foot (6.1 m) hop. | |
Gokuraku Tombo | Japan | 1986 | Team Aeroscepsy | Several HPAs built by the team are called the same. Two Japanese records set under the FAI rules: 4.437 km (May 1992) and 10.881 km (Aug. 2003). The 22nd Japan International Birdman Rally (JIBR) HPA section won, 23.688 km. The first HPA reached the opposite shore (northwest shore) of Lake Biwa from start point at east shore. The 30th JIBR HPA won time-trial section. Piloted by Hironori Nakayama. | ||
Goodhart Newbury Manflier | UK | 1979 | Nicholas Goodhart | Two-seater with separate pods; pilot control tasks shared. | ||
Gossamer Albatross | USA | 1978 | Paul MacCready Jr. & Peter Lissaman | Kremer Prize for first cross-channel flight, 12 June 1979. Two records set, both superseded: 35.82 km straight distance [5] and 2h 49 min Duration.[6] | ||
Gossamer Condor (Pasadena version) | USA | 1976 | Paul MacCready Jr. & Peter Lissaman | One short hop only, in the car park of the Pasadena Rose Bowl. | ||
Gossamer Condor (Mojave version) | USA | 1976 | Paul MacCready Jr. & Peter Lissaman | (Mojave version) | ||
Gossamer Condor (Shafter airport version) | USA | 1977 | Paul MacCready Jr. & Peter Lissaman | Kremer prize for figure-eight course, 1.15 miles (1850 m), 7 min 25 s flight, 23 August 1977.[7] | ||
Halton Jupiter | UK | 1972 | Christopher Roper /John Potter | 1171 m, 1 min 47 s flight[8] | ||
Hardy HPA | Roger Hardy | |||||
Hartman Ikarus | UK | 1959 | Emiel Hartman | |||
Hill Flying Wing | Hill | |||||
HMPAC Puffin 1 | UK | 1961 | Wimpenny, Vann & Hatfield Man Powered Aircraft Club | 993 yards. | ||
HMPAC Puffin 2 | UK | 1965 | Wimpenny, Vann & Hatfield Man Powered Aircraft Club | 875 yards, height 17 feet, turns. | ||
Aviette Hurel | France | 1974 | Maurice Hurel | Flight trials in June 1974 [9] | ||
HV-1 Mufli | Germany | 1935 | Helmut Haessler & F. Villinger | MUSKELFLUG INSTITUT (Institute of Muscle-Powered-Flight)
At the Gesellschaft Polytechnic, Frankfurt, director – Oskar Ursinus – 779 yards from bungee launch. Flugzeug-Typenbuch. Handbuch der deutschen Luftfahrt- und Zubehör-Industrie 1944[10] | ||
HVS | Germany | 1982 | Hütter/Villinger/Schüle | Operated in 20 mph winds. | ||
HYPER-CHick "KoToNo Limited" | Japan | 1992 | Toshiaki Yoshikawa / Team Active Gals | First female flight in Japan on 5 July 1992, with Kotono Hori as pilot. 119.45 m (130.19 yards) / 22.98 seconds | ||
Ibis HPA | Japan | 1978 | Nihon University | Further development of the Jupiter – Stork line. | ||
Icarus HPA-1 | USA | 1977 | Taras Kiceniuk Jr. | Longest flight of 30 seconds at Shafter Airport. | ||
Kiceniuk Icarus | 1975 | Taras Kiceniuk Jr. | WIGE HPAC project[11] | |||
Kohm Lady Godiva | USA | 1982 | Thomas Kohm et al | Replica of the MacCready Gossamer Albatross. First "girl-powered" HPA | ||
Linnet I | Japan | 1966 | Prof. Kimura / Research Institute of Science and Technology, Nihon University | 47 yards, height 9 feet. | ||
Linnet II | Japan | 1967 | Prof. Kimura / Research Institute of Science and Technology, Nihon University | 100 yards, height 5 feet. | ||
Linnet III | Japan | 1970 | Prof. Kimura / Research Institute of Science and Technology, Nihon University | 34 yards. | ||
Linnet IV | Japan | 1971 | Prof. Kimura / Research Institute of Science and Technology, Nihon University | 66 yards. | ||
Lippisch 1929 Man-Powered Ornithopter | Germany | 1929 | Ornithopter | Alexander Lippisch | Flown by Hans Werner Krause. | |
Liverpuffin | UK | 1972 | Keith Sherwin | Built from the remains of the Puffin II by students from Liverpool University led by Sherwin. | ||
Malliga 1 HPA | Austria | 1967 | Josef Malliga | [12] | ||
Malliga 2 HPA | Austria | 1972 | Josef Malliga | [12] | ||
Man-Eagle 1 | USA | 1982 | Wayne T. Bliesner | Short flights a.k.a. "Bliesner 8". | ||
Man-Eagle 3 | USA | 1983 | Wayne T. Bliesner | Kremer Speed Course. | ||
Man-Eagle 4 | USA | 1985 | Wayne T. Bliesner | |||
Maruoka Man-Powered Screw-Wing Machine | Japan | 1902 | Katsura Maruoka | [13] | ||
Southend MPG Mayfly | UK | 1965 | Brian Kerry | |||
McAvoy MPA-1 | USA | 1962 | James M. McAvoy | Georgia Tech. | ||
Michelob Light Eagle | USA | 1986 | Mark Drela / Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 37 miles. Onboard test equipment. | ||
MiLan'81 | Japan | 1981 | Naito / Nihon University | 645 yards. | ||
MiLan'82 | Japan | 1982 | Naito / Nihon University | 1800 yards. | ||
MIT BURD | USA | 1973 | Biplane | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | First of several HPAs built by MIT students. Did not fly. | |
MIT BURD II | USA | 1976 | Biplane | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Copy of the original BURD. Did not fly. | |
MIT Chrysalis | USA | 1979 | Biplane | Parks & Youngren / Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Over a four month period, made 345 flights with 44 different pilots. | |
MIT Daedalus 87 | USA | 1987 | Drela / Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MIT Daedalus Project. | ||
MIT Daedalus 88 | USA | 1988 | Drela / Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MIT Daedalus Project. 1988 Crete to Santorini flight, official FAI world records for total distance (119 km), straight-line distance, and duration (3 h 55 min) for human-powered aircraft. | ||
MIT Monarch A | USA | 1983 | Mark Drela / Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 29 flights. | ||
MIT Monarch B | USA | 1984 | Drela / Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Won the £20,000 first prize for the Kremer World Speed Competition. | ||
Möwe6-B | Japan | 1989 | Nihon University Aero Student Group (NASG) | First Japanese record set under the FAI rules. Distance: 3.708 km (Mar. 1990) | ||
Möwe20 | Japan | 2002 | Nihon University Aero Student Group (NASG) | The 27th Japan International Birdman Rally (JIBR) HPA section won, 34.654 km. Pilot was not exhausted but took water by organizer direction because the HPA reached end of flyable area (southwest side of Lake Biwa) (Jul. 2003) – straight-distance record in JIBR. Japanese record set under the FAI rules. 11.874 km / 46 min 40 s (Aug. 2004). Piloted by Kai Hirawata. | ||
Möwe21 | Japan | 2003 | Nihon University Aero Student Group (NASG) | Japanese records set under the FAI rules. 49.172 km, 1 h 48 min 12 s (6 Aug. 2005). Current Japanese records. Piloted by Nariyuki Masuda. | ||
Mozi HPA | China | 2009 | OXAI Aircraft Company / Mao Yiqing | |||
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