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The efforts of Maryland University's Gamera II team in snaring the US$250,000 Sikorsky Prize for human-powered helicopter flight have garnered much attention (not least from Gizmag) in recent months, ...

The engineers at Aerovelo are the masters of human-powered vehicle design. The Canadian team has set records both for human-powered flight and for human-powered land speed. Last year they set the ...

Aerovelo has set a new human-powered speed record using its specially designed aero bike. Running at the World Human Powered Speed Challenge in Battle Mountain, Nevada, the egg-shaped Aerovelo Eta ...

AeroVelo’s bullet-shaped Eta speed bike just clocked in as the fastest human-powered bicycle in history. Blasting through world records, rider Todd Reichert hit an astonishing 85.71 miles per hour ...

The Atlas helicopter, designed and built by Canadian team AeroVelo, might be the firsthuman-powered helicopter to reach a height of three meters for at least 60 seconds—two key parameters for the $250 ...

Winning the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize wasn't enough for the team at Aerovelo, who claimed the elusive prize after keeping their human-powered helicopter aloft for more than 60 seconds and climbing to ...

It might look like a kayak on its side, but that vehicle above has just broken the human-powered land speed record. The pilot, Todd Reichert, managed 85.71mph in his "Eta" speedbike on Thursday ...

What do you do after you set the record for human-powered flight and bag the Sikorsky Prize by floating around in a pedal-driven helicopter? You break the human-powered speed record, of course -- at ...

Aerovelo, a Canadian firm focused on human-powered technologies, has broken the standing world record with its latest invention – a bike shaped like a bullet that can go as fast as a car on a highway.