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Human-powered aircraft - first sustained flight
- rw140 16y agoSee also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1717023 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1717023
- kbob 16y agoThe HN headline is extremely misleading. It's the first sustained flight of a FLAPPING WING human powered aircraft. The Gossamer Condor demonstrated sustained flight in 1977. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossamer_Condor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossamer_Condor