Visions of human flight could soon soar beyond Leonardo da Vinci's sketches into reality. A crowd-funded project looks to make the first human-powered helicopter capable of winning a $250,000 prize ...

A quixotic Kickstarter-funded project has won the Sikorsky Prize, one of the most elusive goals in aviation, by keeping a human powered helicopter aloft for more than a minute. Aerovelo, an ...

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. (a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., Stratford, Conn.) congratulated AeroVelo Inc. (Toronto, Canada) for a flight that has won the American Helicopter Society (AHS) Igor ...

Students at University of Maryland are using pedal power to break a human-powered helicopter record (but hopefully to break nothing else). As noted on the video description by the students who make up ...