I believe I can fly...By Rory Smith

Icarus & Daedalus

Flight obsessions and failures

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMhdksPFhCM

Angle of attack?

Angle of attack?

Bernoulli effect?

Angle of attack?

Bernoulli effect?

Coanda effect?

Angle of attack, Bernoulli effect and Coanda effect combined.....

Power: 2100W (21 X 100 watt light bulbs)

Speeds reached: 4.5 km/s (10,000 mph)

Max speed:30 km/s (67,100 mph)

Kremer Prize for Human Powered

Flight:

Schools prize - £1000 and trophy, Royal Aeronautical Society, for longest flight that year.

Best so far:6 sec, 37 m, in 1985, Singapore.

e.g Albatross: 10 stone pilot, 15 mph => 320 watts

330 kcal = 1.38MJ

1 Jelly-doughnut lasts 1 hr, 12 min

Fusion Man!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-66AcTo9TU