Aircraft - Aviation - Balloons - Helicopters
May 05, 1962 - Pedal-Powered Sky-Bike Flies: A British aircraft engineer, John Wimpenny, 39, of St Alban's Berts, has become the first man to fly a man-powered machine for more than half a mile. The news of the flight last Wednesday at Hatfield aerodrome was released yesterday. The machine, called The Puffin, has ab 84-foot wing span and was built by the Hatfield Man-powers aircraft Group and weighs 8at. 31b. Next task for the craft: a flight of one mile for which a prize of5, 000 has seen offered. Photo shows The bicycle plane airborne at Hatfield, Herts, under pedal-power. The plane flew half a mile
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