Champion Cyclist sets man-powered flight record
NZPA-Reuter Athens A Greek cycling: champion set the world distance record for a manpowered flight on j Saturday, retracing the (mythical flight of Daedalus who used wings of wax. and feathers to flee King Minds 3500 years agd.
("During the ( flight everything went well and I ( thought it was very easy." Kanellos Kanellopdu’los tolc reporters after his 119 km flight oyer the Cretan Sea: !
(He pedalled steadily for some four hours to pilot the) American-djesigned aircraft from the .Mediterranean island of Crete (to the neighbouring nlorthem island of Santorihij. ( Kanellopoulos, aged 30, flew about five metres above the waves and after his! takeoff from Heraklion Airport on Crete was escorted to Santorini 'by two Greek Coast Guard vessels and a Greek Navy triissile patrol boat. ) The previous (distance record for a purely manpowered flight was (set last year by American Glenn Tremmi. who was a b.ack-up pilot on this attempt. Tremm flew 59.9 km around Edwards Air Force base in California. | According to Greek
mythology, Daedalus, a brilliant Athenian craftsman and inventor, who was held prisoner on Crete after incurring the wrath of Minos. King of the ancient Minoans, escaped after he fashioned wings from wax. feathers and string for himself and his son, Icarus. : j Despite warnings from his father. Icarus flew too high, the sun melted his wax wings and, he plunged into the sea and died. The island of Icaria and the nearby Icarian Sea are named for the spot. The myth of Daedalus has fired the imagination of inventors over the centuries and many have sought to build a manpowered aircraft. The first such long-distance flight was by an American team over the [English Channel in 1979. Instead of Daedalus’ wax and feathers, the iM.I.T. engineers used the latest in space-age technologies to duplicate the mythical flight from Crete. Carbon fibres embedded in epoxy resin were used for spars, polystyrene foam for wing and tail ribs, polyester plastic for the aircraft’s “skin" and piano'wire for wing bracing, j - ~
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