Strange old man-powered design

[hesham]

Hi,

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1962/1962%20-%200251.html

 

[Orionblamblam]

A design powered by a strange old man?

 

[Michel Van]

can it be, this a Strange design, power by a old man ?

just kidding


background on man-powered aircraft

in 1959 the industrialist Henry Kremer offered
the Kremer Prizes of £50,000 for the first human-powered aeroplane
to fly a figure-of-eight course round two markers half-a-mile apart.

More on here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-powered_aircraft

and the winner was in 1977
this aircraft the Gossamer Condor

look not like at all that Strange design