Consumer Traveler reports, “The Canadians with plenty of oil and gas reserves are inexplicitly dabbling in alternative energy platforms. This time, human-powered flight. Not only are they succeeding, they have succeeded without any of the lavish research funds being doled out via stimulus funds back here at home in the USA.”
From Reuters:
International aviation officials are expected to certify next month that the Snowbird has made the world’s first successful, sustained flight of a human-powered ornithopter, according to the University of Toronto.
The Snowbird sustained both altitude and airspeed for 19.3 seconds, in an August 2 test flight near Toronto that was witnessed by an official of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, the university announced. A video of the flight was shown on news programmes.
Others have claimed to have built machines that flew like a bird, but the Canadian group says they have the telemetry data to prove their ornithopter powered itself through the air rather than just glided after being lifted aloft
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