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May 11, 2011

Maryland Students Testing Human-Powered Helicopter

Move over, Da Vinci: this morning, graduate students at the University of Maryland are testing a human-powered helicopter in the hopes of winning the Sikorsky Prize, a $250,000 award established by the American Helicopter Society that has gone unclaimed for more than 30 years.

 
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