Visions of human flight could soon soar beyond Leonardo da Vinci's sketches into reality. A crowd-funded project looks to make the first human-powered helicopter capable of winning a $250,000 prize ...

A quixotic Kickstarter-funded project has won the Sikorsky Prize, one of the most elusive goals in aviation, by keeping a human powered helicopter aloft for more than a minute. Aerovelo, an ...

Students at University of Maryland are using pedal power to break a human-powered helicopter record (but hopefully to break nothing else). As noted on the video description by the students who make up ...

Students from the Clark School of Engineering at University of Maryland made history with their human-powered Gamera II helicopter this weekend, keeping the aircraft hovering in the air for 50 seconds ...