Human-Powered Helicopter Wins the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize
It was only a matter of time until the materials got good enough for this to happen.<p>I'm always surprised that these teams never seemed to try and recruit pro athletes for this kind of thing.  I've got a friend who's a professional cyclist and his 30 second power rating is something like 1100 watts and I'm sure at a minute it's only degraded by 50-100 watts.