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  • Human-powered hover bike wins coveted $250K prize

    07/12/2013 9:48:39 AM PDT · by posterchild · 14 replies
    CBC ^ | July 11, 2013
    A long-elusive aviation innovation prize that has never had a winner in its 33-year existence has finally been claimed after a team of Toronto engineers built and then flew a human-powered hover bike. The highly-coveted Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition — known as the AHS Sikorsky prize for short — was awarded for the first time in its history Thursday to AeroVelo, a Toronto-based engineering team made up of University of Toronto students, alumni and volunteers. University of Toronto alumni, students and volunteers built the Atlas aircraft, which was piloted more than three metres into the air last...