Kremer prize

Kremer prize

The Kremer prizes are a series of monetary awards, established in 1959 by the industrialist Henry Kremer, that are given to pioneers of human-powered flight. The competitions and prize awards are administered by the Royal Aeronautical Society's Human Powered Aircraft Group. [cite web | title=Human Powered Aircraft Group Webpage | date=2006-05-21 | work=Royal Aeronautical Society | url=http://www.raes.org.uk/cmspage.asp?cmsitemid=SG_Hum_Pow_Home | accessdate=2007-05-21 ] .

The first Kremer prize of £50,000 was won on August 23, 1977 by Dr. Paul MacCready when his Gossamer Condor, piloted by Bryan Allen, was the first human-powered aircraft to fly a figure eight around two markers one half mile apart, starting and ending the course at least convert|10|ft|m above the ground.

The second Kremer prize of £100,000 was won on June 12, 1979, again by Paul MacCready, when Bryan Allen flew MacCready's Gossamer Albatross from England to France.

A Kremer prize of £20,000 for speed was won in 1983 by a design team of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for flying their MIT Monarch B craft on a triangular convert|1.5|km|mi|abbr=on course in under three minutes (for an average speed of convert|32|km/h|mi/h|abbr=on).

There are currently three Kremer Prizes that have not yet been awarded, for a total of £150,000.

*a 26 mile Marathon course in under an hour (£50,000),
*a sporting aircraft challenge stressing maneuverability (£100,000),
*a local challenge that is limited to youth groups (under 18 years) in the UK.

References


External links

* [http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/j_d_mcintyre/dates.htm Human Powered Aircraft (Concise History)]
* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musculair Musculair (German Wikipedia Definition)]
* [http://www.raes.org.uk/cmspage.asp?cmsitemid=SG_Hum_Pow_Home Royal Aeronautical Society Human Powered Flight Group]


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