Contents

   
Foreword
Acknowledgement
Introduction    
MINIMISING POWER REQUIRED
TOPICS & ERRORS
MANY ASPECTS
OPINIONS
Before 1939
BLANCHARD'S BALLOON
DEGEN'S BALLOON 1808
THE PEUGEOT PRIZE
POULAIN/FARMAN
LIFT THEORY
LIPPISCH 1929
MUSKELFLUG INSTITUT (Institute of Muscle-Powered-Flight)
MUFLI
TOTAL ENERGY COST OF POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM
LONGITUDINAL (PITCH) CONTROL & STABILITY
HANS SEEHASE
PEDALIANTE
1950’s revival
AUGUST RASPET
B.S.SHENSTONE, T.R.F. NONWEILER
The MAN-POWERED AIRCRAFT COMMITTEE,(MAPAC)
EMIEL HARTMAN
DANIEL PERKINS
ROYAL AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY MAN POWERED AIRCRAFT GROUP, (RAeS MPAG)
S.S.WILSON
REDUCTION OF CYCLIC VARIATIONS
TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS IN FLIGHT
HENRY KREMER
EFFECT OF FIRST KREMER PRIZE
ALAN STEWART
PRESS ACCOUNTS cc1960
ROUGH ESTIMATE OF POWER REQUIRED
POWER AVAILABLE
PUBLIC ATTITUDES 1959
RAeS GRANTS for HPA DEVELOPMENTS
FIRST RAeS LECTURES on HPF
The first true flights
SUMPAC
PLANFORM
AEROFOIL SECTION
TEST-SECTION
TUNNEL TESTS
INTERFERENCE DRAG
AIRFRAME PROBLEMS
FLYING
ALAN LASSIERE at IMPERIAL COLLEGE ,the LONDON GROUP
PUFFIN
SIMILARITIES between Puffin I and SUMPAC
DIFFERENCES between Puffin I and SUMPAC
PUFFIN CONFIGURATION
TESTS
CONSTRUCTION
TRANSMISSION
FLIGHT TESTS
PUFFIN II
HINDSIGHT
LIVERPUFFIN
STAFF LED UNIVERSITY PROJECTS
SINGAPORE
VINE
POLITICS & the SPORT of HPF
RELUCTANT PHOENIX
THE EARLY NIHON AIRCRAFT LINNET I, II, III, and IV
MALLIGA
PROPELLER EFFICIENCY
VENTILATION
MALLIGA LATERAL CONTROL
"MAN POWERED FLIGHT"
OTTAWA
DUMBO/MERCURY
NORTHROP INSTITUTE of TECHNOLOGY
MAYFLY
Jupiter
SUMMARY of its history
OTHER REPORTS of JUPITER
JUPITER TECHNICAL DATA
NON-EXPERIMENTAL
Design
Delivery
Experiments
Modifications
THE AUTHOR'S SUBJECTIVE ACCOUNT of JUPITER
MY EARLIER YEARS :-
MOTIVATION
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
1950s
1959
1960
INITIAL DECISIONS
OPTIMISATION
AEROFOIL SECTION
FIRST WING TEST SPECIMEN
1961 DIRECTION?
TAIL-BOOM DESIGN & APPLY FOR GRANT
PROPELLER and TAILPLANE
1962 TUBE ORDERED
TAIL to BOOM
SIR STUART MALLINSON CBE DSO MC JP DL
REDESIGN WING
ANOTHER WING-TEST-PIECE
COMPUTER
CONSTRUCT
HELPERS at WOODFORD,ESSEX
1963 REDESIGN FUSELAGE
INTERFERENCE DRAG
VISIT BY PRESIDENT RAeS
GRANT
BRADSHAW SPRING
1965 CONTROLS
VISITORS
1966
EXPONENTIAL "PROGRESS"
NO AIRFIELD
NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE
LACK OF FINANCE
1967 PROGRESS EXPONENTIAL
1968 DISASTERS
FIRE
Jupiter (cont)
1970 JOHN POTTER
MY FEELINGS (with hindsight ) about the HANDOVER
SUPPORT from ROYAL AIR FORCE
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
MY RE-INVOLVEMENT
NEW ELEVATOR
FUSELAGE TORSIONAL STIFFNESS
HALTON GRASS
A LETTER TO MY BROTHER
FLYING ATTITUDE
TAKE-OFF
CHAIN TENSIONER
DEMONSTRATION FLIGHT PLANNING
DAMAGE
`IT'S DOWN, LET'S KICK IT'
NAME
REPAIRS
MIST
INSTRUMENT
RECORD DISTANCE
FIRST "COMMERCIAL" HPA
MONEY
CRANWELL
THAMESMEAD FESTIVAL of HUMAN POWER 1984
POLEGATE
CHIGWELL
METAL CHAINS CAN TWIST - OFFICIAL
Other ‘70’s planes
BRIERLEY'S COMPETITION
BIRDMEN
WRIGHT
MICRON
TOUCAN
Toucan II
NIHON UNIVERSITY (continued)
EGRET
STORK
STORK'S IMPROVEMENTS ON JUPITER
RIGGING
IBIS
DRAGONFLY
LONGITUDINAL TRIM
AVIETTE
BURD
WING RIBS
OLYMPIAN ZB 1
ICARUS
BLIESNER SERIES
SUMMARY of BLIESNER AIRPLANES 3 to 7
PHILIPS
VERSTRAETE/MASSCHELIN Bros
NEWBURY MANFLIER
The Gossamers and other planes
GOSSAMER CONDOR
PASADENA VERSION
MOJAVE VERSION
SHAFTER VERSION
WASHOUT
KREMER CROSS CHANNEL COMPETITION
GOSSAMER ALBATROSS
 
Early 80’s
CHRYSALIS
MiLan
PHOENIX
KREMER FIGURE-EIGHT COMPETITION ( continued )
HVS
ADJUSTMENTS
COMPETITIONS
PELARGOS 2
MUSCULAIR I
The Kremer World Speed Competition
AIMS
SETTING-UP
RESPONSE
THE RACE
4 MAY 1983
5 MAY 1983
27 MAY 1983
28 MAY 1983
MAY 1983
14 JUNE 1983
27 JUNE 1983
10 JULY 1983
4 AUGUST 1983
14 AUGUST 1983
20 AUGUST 1983
23 SEPTEMBER 1983
25 SEPTEMBER 1983
13 OCTOBER 1983
15 OCTOBER 1983
23 NOVEMBER 1983
DECEMBER 1983
JANUARY 1984
FEBRUARY 1984
29 FEBRUARY 1984
4 APRIL 1984
APRIL 1984
3 MAY 1984
5 MAY 1984
6 MAY 198
7 MAY 1984
11 MAY 1984
JUNE 1984
19 JUNE 1984
JULY 1984
18 JULY 1984
3 AUG 1984
AUG 1984
21 AUGUST 1984
NOVEMBER 1984
2 DECEMBER 1984
FEBRUARY 1985
1985
AUGUST 1985
1 OCTOBER 1985
2 OCTOBER 1985
1986
SPEED COMPETITION SUMMARY OF RESULTS
BATTERIES
REPORTS
FUTURE
MONARCH A & B
BIONIC BAT/GOSSAMER SWIFT
FLIGHT ENVELOPE
WING AERODYNAMICS
EFFECT OF MOTOR ASSISTANCE
MUSCULAIR 1  (continued)
PASSENGER FLIGHT
MUSCULAIR II
WING
MAN-EAGLE
STORAGE SYSTEM
PERFORMANCE
MAN-EAGLE VARIANTS
RAVEN
SWIFT series
NEW ZEALAND
FROST EMMETT HPA  197? -1979   and  1984
UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND 1984
PROPELLER DESIGN
NZHPFG "ROYAL SPOONBILL" HPA 1983 to 1987
DON WALTHER 1982 to 1987
VERTIGO
The Daedalus Project
PRELIMINARY ANALYSES May 1984 to April 1985
PHASE 1 April 1985 to April 1986 Feasibility Study
STANDARD FOR MEASURING POWER REQUIREMENT
PHASE 2 April 1986 to April 1987
Michelob Light Eagle
NEW AEROFOIL
WING PROFILE
PILOTS     SELECTION, TRAINING & TESTING
DRINK
JANUARY 1987 TEST FLIGHTS
LAMINAR FLOW
ATHLETIC LIMITS
REQUIRED POWER
AUTO-PILOT
PHASE 3 April 1987 to April 1988
DAEDALUS
AERO-ELASTICITY FLIGHT TESTS
THE CROSSING 23rd April 1988
RESULTS
Up to date
VELAIR
VELAIR 89
DA VINCI3 HELICOPTER
CYCLAIR - A PROPOSED DESIGN
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, ENGLAND
LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY, ENGLAND
ORNITHOPTER
AIRGLOW
The Schools Competition
Table of types
Glossary
Bibiography
References
Rough estimate power calculator
Index