Sunday, July 16, 2006

Something in the air this summer?

First we had the flight of the world's first human-carrying ornithopter (see the post from July 9). Now a group of Japanese students has built the first piloted airplane powered by household batteries - 160 AAs. The plane had a 31m wingspan, but weighed only 44kg without the pilot. It flew for a distance of 391m.

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