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 

[onQ Quincy]

You lost for being dumb enough to take that comment serious & make that dumbass reply

[Justwantahover]

So did the Wright Brothers.

[Justwantahover]

HA HA, you lost that argument didn't you! lol

[Justwantahover]

Prove to me that it's fake. Why do you think it's fake. Don't you think it's possible? Where did you get your fucking aeronautical engineering degree (from a young earth creationists website). How do you fucking know?

[onQ Quincy]

Mannn Shut the hell up!

[Justwantahover]

What do you expect, dip-shit?

[Justwantahover]

Bullshit!

I bet you couldn't take-off from the ground under you own power and fly for any longer than one-tenth of a second (only jump) with a bed-sheet. And if you jumped off a building and glided with just a bed-sheet for longer than 50 seconds, you would be well-and-truly in the record books. You are what I call a "knocker". You go and build a human powered helicopter and beat the record (if you think you are better than them) dip-shit.

[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!