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.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.