Human Powered Helicopter

As reported in Slashdot -- a team of engineering students from UBC have completed a functioning human powered helicopter, in response to a competition by the American Helicopter Society. The competition has been open for the last 24 years, and in recent years, about 17 human powered helicopters have been built -- but none have meet the competition's criteria of staying aloft for 1 minute and reach a height of 3 metres. The UBC entry hopes to change that.