The Hangar Aug 10, 2026The Gossamer Condor and the August Morning a Bicycle Racer Pedaled the First Human-Powered Airplane Around a One-Mile CourseHow the Gossamer Condor won the Kremer Prize on August 23, 1977, achieving the first human-powered controlled flight.Taildragger
The Hangar Aug 3, 2026The Gossamer Albatross, Bryan Allen, and the Human-Powered Flight Across the English Channel on Nothing but Two Legs and a Twenty-Two-Foot PropellerHow Bryan Allen pedaled the Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel in 1979, achieving the first human-powered crossing.Taildragger
The Hangar Jul 7, 2026The Solar Challenger and the English Channel: July Seven, Nineteen Eighty-OneOn July 7, 1981, pilot Steve Ptacek flew the Solar Challenger from France to England in 5 hours 23 minutes on nothing but sunlight - no fuel, no batteries, no stored energy of any kind.Taildragger