13-05-2011, 21:41
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 FRC #1778 (Chill Out!) Team Role: Engineer
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Rookie Year: 2004
Location: Puget Sound
Posts: 2,520
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Re: Human Powered Helicopter
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Originally Posted by JamesBrown
From the team website:
Late in the afternoon of May 12, 2011, in the auxiliary gym of the Comcast Center on the campus of the University of Maryland, the human-powered helicopter Gamera, designed and built by graduate and undergraduate students of the A. James Clark School of Engineering and piloted by biology student Judy Wexler, achieved lift-off of 3-5 inches and hover time of approximately 4 seconds.
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A video, if anyone is interested.
It definitely doesn't look nearly as stable as the one built by the Japanese in the 1990s. |