Its aviation ambitions began with attempts to win a much-needed $100,000 prize for the first human-powered airplane.
The English inventor Henry Kremer had established prizes for human-powered airplanes that met various goals; the Gossamer Condor was the first to fly in a figure eight, a feat that is generally regarded as the first controlled, sustained human-powered flight.
More recently, prizes have led to major improvements in human-powered airplanes, energy-efficient refrigerators and suborbital space craft.
Along the way, we will log all signs of human activity – from airplanes to boats to people to garbage – in an effort to document the effects on some of our nation's most remote protected wilderness.
"The Met exhibit includes Atair's EXO-Wing™, the world's smallest human-piloted jet airplane.
Their grisly catch included airplane debris, human remains and personal effects like Christmas cards and cosmetics scooped up with nets and skiffs.
An abnormally high fraction of the ash particles spewed skyward by Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano last April were small and sharp and therefore posed high risks to airplanes and human health, a new study suggests.
You were right, airplanes are human.
First imitating and now surpassing the aerodynamics of birds, humans have invented airplanes that can fly at high speeds, including supersonic aircrafts.
A human who was flying the airplane manually might feel those effects.
