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Offline gunug

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AeroVelo wins the Sikorsky Prize!
« on: July 11, 2013, 12:31:31 PM »
Looking like a hugely overgrown balsa wood model the AeroVelo Atlas has won the quarter million dollar Sikorsky prize.  Here is the video at Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syJq10EQkog...player_embedded

and here's a brief article:

http://inhabitat.com/aerovelo-human-powere...sikorsky-prize/

I think this would be great exercise but will not catch on!

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« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2013, 03:26:04 PM »
Wouldn't it be simpler to just ask some one to go get the hotdog? dntknw.gif
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« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2013, 03:36:18 PM »
whistling.gif Aren't you just upset because it doesn't use jet fuel?
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« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2013, 12:29:51 AM »
Woo hoo - Go U of T Engineering! biggrin.gif (Most of the team is from University of Toronto) http://www.aerovelo.com/projects/helicopter/helicopterteam/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/stor...bike-prize.html

(We have more than a passing interest in U of T engineers in this household - my dad is one, and I'm married to one - and went to U of T myself) wink.gif
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« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2013, 10:23:45 AM »
I think it's pretty impressive and it's almost like something Da Vinci could have thought of but it took hundreds of years for the technology to allow it to happen!

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« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2013, 02:30:36 PM »
Well, he could prolly have done it quicker if he'd had bicycles. I'm jis sayin' And that huge building!! WOW.gif Nothing like that in Milan! eek2.gif
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« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2013, 09:12:42 AM »
Pretty cool!  clap.gif salute.gif
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