Gamera II HPH Previous World Record: 50 seconds

Gamera II is the second human powered helicopter from the University of Maryland's Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center.The NAA has certified this flight by Kyle Gluesenkamp as a new record at 49.9 seconds!

This flight surpasses Colin Gore's incredible 40-second flight in Gamera II of a couple days ago (http://youtu.be/S-k-3efasOk), and a new world record for human powered helicopters!

It has since been surpassed by Colin Gore in Gamera II XR who flew for an official 65.1 seconds in August 2012. http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?r...

http://www.agrc.umd.edu/gamera/

This flight was almost five times longer than the current official record of 11.4 seconds, set by Judy Wexler in Gamera I last summer (http://youtu.be/n-qFhcL9mg4), and over twice as long as the 19.4 second flight of Akira Naito's Yuri I in 1994 (http://youtu.be/aR2CV1OeUdU)

The team is pursuing the American Helicopter Society International's (AHS) Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Prize (http://vtol.org/awards-and-contests/h...), which requires a 60-second flight and 3m (10 ft) altitude.

Video Editing: Will Gross

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[Charles de Clarens]

it's doesn't really fly, it uses ground effect...

[onQ Quincy]

I jumped off my grandma's house with a bed sheet when I was a kid & stayed up longer than that

[Cam Moto]

intact fibulae define failure

[RamadaArtist]

The difference here is that if you attach blades to the edges of your grandma's bed sheet it doesn't become a totally sweet (if impossible/implausible) zombie area-attack weapon.

[TheBillowred]

Sweet birkenstocks bro!

[Benswan187]

I'd love to see Sir Chris Hoy on this bad boy!

[Dmitrij Jukhimchuk]

UP UP AND GO

[TheBillyboyy007]

Is really bullshit

[Short E]

retarded u

[Fish Hore]

Fake

[James Lewis]

Is it using some kind of gyro control of the rotor pitch to control attitude, or are there people holding it stable?