{"id":151093,"date":"2022-11-25T14:23:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T20:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/human-powered-aircraft-gossamer-albatross-made-history"},"modified":"2022-11-25T14:23:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T20:23:32","slug":"human-powered-aircraft-gossamer-albatross-made-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/human-powered-aircraft-gossamer-albatross-made-history","title":{"rendered":"Human-powered aircraft: Gossamer Albatross made history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/human-powered-aircraft-gossamer-albatross-made-history2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It accomplished this record-breaking feat in two hours and 49 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>After aeronautical engineer Paul MacCready won the first Kremer Prize in 1977 for the flight of his human-powered Gossamer Condor over a closed circuit course, he decided to cross the English Channel by air on human-power only, according to a report by The Museum of Flight.<\/p>\n<p>He thus built the Gossamer Albatross aircraft from the lessons learned with the Condor. \u201cThis light and fragile aircraft was pushed by a propeller connected through a series of gears to a constantly pedaling pilot,\u201d explained an article in The Museum of Flight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA new class of ultralight designs which are characterized by low power requirements\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Using only human power to do anything is an amazing feat but this becomes exceptionally impressive when it pertains to flight. Aeronautical engineer Paul MacCready managed to achieve a human-powered only flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It accomplished this record-breaking feat in two hours and 49 minutes. After aeronautical engineer Paul MacCready won the first Kremer Prize in 1977 for the flight of his human-powered Gossamer Condor over a closed circuit course, he decided to cross the English Channel by air on human-power only, according to a report by The Museum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151093","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=151093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}