{"id":150821,"date":"2022-11-22T16:26:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T22:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/human-powered-aircraft-a-plane-with-impossible-engineering-and-no-engine"},"modified":"2022-11-22T16:26:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T22:26:58","slug":"human-powered-aircraft-a-plane-with-impossible-engineering-and-no-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/human-powered-aircraft-a-plane-with-impossible-engineering-and-no-engine","title":{"rendered":"Human-powered aircraft: A plane with \u2018impossible engineering\u2019 and no engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jgPdp9pj7Gk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lazarus, built by university students, made its longest flight time yet.<\/p>\n<p>Students at the University of Southampton have a special project they have been working on for years together. That is, to power flight using only the muscle power of a single pilot, technically known as human-powered aircraft (HPA). Earlier this year, the team won their first Formula Flight competition with their design dubbed Lazarus.<\/p>\n<p>Formula Flight is a competition organized by the Royal Aeronautical Society\u2019s Human Powered Flight Group. According to its webpage, human-powered flying is a sport that combines \u201cextreme athleticism with almost impossible engineering\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Southampton University.<\/p>\n<p>Since the human body can only produce maximum power for a few seconds, the aircraft used in the sport needs to have a low cruise speed and lightweight construction. This allows them to fly only in low winds and achieving flight can be rather hard though not impossible.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/human-powered-aircraft-a-plane-with-impossible-engineering-and-no-engine\">Continue reading \u201cHuman-powered aircraft: A plane with \u2018impossible engineering\u2019 and no engine\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lazarus, built by university students, made its longest flight time yet. Students at the University of Southampton have a special project they have been working on for years together. That is, to power flight using only the muscle power of a single pilot, technically known as human-powered aircraft (HPA). Earlier this year, the team won [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}