development of human-powered aircraft

South Korean Air Force developed the human-powered aircraft could be used by the pedal away from the ground and pushes human-powered.

The Colonel Mtchou Sung Oak supervisor and development officers in the Air Force Academy in central South Korea, indicate that a “Sky Runner,” which weighs 40 kg and only 30 meters along the wings, have succeeded in flying a distance of 150 meters and 100 meters, respectively, in tests conducted last week, , according to a South Korean news agency, “Yonhap.”

And Choi said that it can be for a single pilot to control the plane, he believed the momentum through the use of mats during take-off and flight.

The air force of South Korea that the United States had the best number in the space flight made by the aircraft of this type, it has 119 km in more than four hours in 1998, and the Japan trench 1.4 kilometers in 1983.

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