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Human-Powered Helicopter Wins Sikorsky Prize

Posted July 14, 2013 10:34 AM

From Mental Floss:

Last year I wrote about the Sikorsky Prize, a $250,000 purse that would go to any group that could: make a human-powered helicopter that can fly for 60 seconds, reach an altitude of 3 meters (peak), and remain within a 10-square-meter area during that time. The prize was established in 1980, and people have been working to win it ever since. On June 13 of this year, the prize-winning flight finally took place. The winners are the team at AeroVelo.

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07/14/2013 2:54 PM

DON'T CLICK THE LINK UNLESS YOU WANT TO RISK A LOCKED PC.... again

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07/14/2013 4:22 PM

Link loads fine for me. Is anyone else having any trouble with Mental Floss articles?
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Nope...

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Yupp, but I brush my teeth!

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07/15/2013 1:57 AM

Yeah, ya got me there guys.
I thought I'd try again...

Half a screen loads then even the wheel of death freezes.

Maybe it's google Chrome... maybe it's... wha'eva... I don't actually care... I'll go make bows... the software on these is 100% bug free... but sometime the wood insn't

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07/15/2013 2:57 AM

At last third time lucky...

I went into chrome and dissabled this feature.
"Use a web service to help resolve navigation errors".

Dunno if that was causing it, but I'd had 3 snag ups this morning.
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