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  1. AeroVelo Breaks Human-powered Land Speed Record

    Tech · Transportation · · posted by Soulskill · from the zoom-zoom dept. · 21 comments
    yyzmcleod sends news that AeroVelo, a Canadian team of engineers and students, has built a bike that successfully broke the human-powered land speed record. (This is the same group that built a human-powered helicopter in 2013.) The team's Eta recumbent speed bike managed a speed of 85.7mph (137.9km/h). The previous record was 83.1 mph.

  2. Aerovelo's Human-Powered Helicopter Wins $250,000 Sikorsky Prize

    Tech · Canada · · posted by timothy · from the energetic-commute dept. · 58 comments
    First time accepted submitter oritonic1 writes "Since 1980, several teams have tried (and failed) to build a human-powered helicopter that could win the elusive $250,000 Sikorsky prize. But a Canadian start-up, Aerovelo, has finally taken the crown with Atlas, a human-powered craft that managed to stay at least 10 feet in the air, for 60 seconds, within a 30'x30' area."