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Human-Powered
Flying Machine Inventor
After half a lifetime of experimenting with gliders, sailplanes, and model airplanes, aeronautics engineer Paul MacCready built the Gossamer Condor--the world’s first successful human-powered plane.
“What was really fascinating about human-powered flight was the $95,000 prize for achieving it,” MacCready once said.
The Kremer Prize committee offered the reward for the world’s first sustained, controlled flight by a heavier-than-air craft powered solely by its pilot’s muscles.
The prize remained unclaimed for 18 years until MacCready’s Gossamer Condor completed the required one-mile course in 1977.
Next: The Work of Paul MacCready ›
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