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Feb. 26 Japanese Students Build Two Successful Man-Powered Planes: Two different types of man-powered airplanes, the SM-OX-1, and the Linnette have been successfully flown in Japan after being built by students. The SM-OX-1 was built by students of Fukuoka Dai-Ichi Senior High School under the directions of the Kenichi Maeda, a teacher at the school, and Professor Hiroshi Sato of Kyushu University. Another teacher Masanobu Araki has succeeded the late Mr Maeda. The Linnette was built by students of the Aviation Department of Nihon University. The SM-OX-1 has been flown 68-meters at a height of 3-meters from a take off powered by a bicycle fitted in the cockpit and pedalled by the pilot. The Linnette, which is a much sleeker plane, also powered by a bicycle-pedalling pilot flew 91-meters -a Japanese record. The SM-OX-1 has a wing-span of 22-meters, is 5, 2-meters long, and weighs 55 kilos. The Linnette measurements are about the same as the SM-OX-1 and the weight is distrubuted differently, and has a higher tail. Photo shows The SM-OX-1 in flight the pedalling-pilot is seen as he takes off

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