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    The MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department's Daedalus is a class of three human-powered aircraft that included Daedalus 88 – which, on 23 April 1988...
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  • November 28, 2023. "Dædalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, reaches expanded audiences through open access". The MIT Press. Retrieved...
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  • Look up Daedalus or daedalus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Daedalus was a figure in Greek mythology. Daedalus, Daedelus, Daidalos or Dedale may...
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    three follow-on designs, the Light Eagle and two MIT Daedalus aircraft, the Daedalus-87 and Daedalus-88. The current distance record recognised by the...
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    achieved on 23 April 1988 from Heraklion on Crete to Santorini in a MIT Daedalus 88 piloted by Greek cyclist Kanellos Kanellopoulos. The current speed...
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    amateur triathlete flew 15.44 kilometers in 37 minutes, 38 seconds in the MIT Daedalus project's human-powered Michelob Light Eagle aircraft at Roger Dry lake...
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    that craft, the MIT Monarch B, won the prize the following year. The Chrysalis and the Monarch HPAs were precursors to the Daedalus aircraft, which flew...
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  • Godiva MacCready Gossamer Albatross MacCready Gossamer Condor MIT Chrysalis MIT Daedalus MIT Monarch A Related lists List of human-powered aircraft "The...
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    The MIT Press is the university press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The...
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  • the GNU GPL. XFOIL was first developed by Mark Drela at MIT as a design tool for the MIT Daedalus project in the 1980s. It was further developed in collaboration...
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  • 44 different pilots. MIT Daedalus 87 USA 1987 Drela / Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Daedalus Project. MIT Daedalus 88 USA 1988 Drela / Massachusetts...
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    Summer Olympics. He was also the pilot and human engine for the 1988 MIT Daedalus project, completing the 72.4 mi (115.11 km) flight from Crete to the...
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  • MacCready Gossamer Albatross MacCready Gossamer Condor MIT BURD II MIT Chrysalis MIT Daedalus Related lists List of human-powered aircraft Wahl, Paul...
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  • Light Stuff, about a human-powered aircraft from Santorini to Crete, the MIT Daedalus; the title is from The Right Stuff; the project had taken three years...
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    Goldfinch as a demonstrator. He managed the MIT Daedalus human powered aircraft project while he was a student at MIT. He founded Aurora Flight Sciences in...
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    1989, AFS was founded in Alexandria, Virginia, as a follow-on to the MIT Daedalus project. In 1991, its first aircraft was the Perseus proof of concept...
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  • Godiva MacCready Gossamer Albatross MacCready Gossamer Condor MIT BURD MIT Chrysalis MIT Daedalus Related lists List of human-powered aircraft Taylor, John...
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  • T.E. Mead Melsheimer FM-1 – Melsheimer, Frank Michelob Light Eagle – MIT Daedalus Project Midwest MU-1 – Midwest Sailplane Miller Tern – Terry Miller Monaghan...
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  • MacCready Gossamer Albatross MacCready Gossamer Condor MIT BURD MIT BURD II MIT Monarch A MIT Daedalus Related lists List of human-powered aircraft Taylor...
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  • 23 April 1988 115.11 km 3h 54mn 59s  Kanellos Kanellopoulos (Greece) MIT Daedalus 88 Human powered Distance and Duration 2 October 1985 44.32 km/h  Holger...
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    from the original on August 9, 2017. Retrieved June 12, 2017. "Mach mit ! - daedalus". Archived from the original on June 6, 2017. Retrieved June 12, 2017...
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  • Astronautics Department) MIT Daedalus (Human powered aircraft) MIT Light Eagle MIT Daedalus 87 MIT Daedalus 88 MIT Monarch MIT Monarch-B MIT Chrysalis (Mitchell...
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    review, and election process. The academy's quarterly journal, Dædalus, is published by the MIT Press on behalf of the academy, and has been open-access since...
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    Godiva MacCready Gossamer Albatross MacCready Gossamer Condor MIT Chrysalis MIT Daedalus Related lists List of human-powered aircraft Taylor, John W. R...
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  • Flight Research Center Fully electric powered aircraft demonstrator. MIT Daedalus Fixed Wing Research, Human Powered Retired (1) 1988 Armstrong Flight...
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    primarily using the Musculair 1 and 2, but also including the Monarch B, MIT Daedalus, and Velair models, a first iteration choice for an airfoil was made...
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  • role, configuration, and era SUMPAC Gossamer Condor Gossamer Albatross MIT Daedalus "Propdesigner". Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved...
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  • configuration, and era MacCready Gossamer Albatross MacCready Gossamer Condor MIT Daedalus Musculair 1 Musculair 2 Related lists List of Human-powered aircraft...
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  • Kanellopoulos recreates the mythical flight of Daedalus by flying a pedal-powered aircraft, the MIT Daedalus, from Crete to Santorini, covering the 119 km...
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