The history of humanpowered flight since leonardo da vinci drew up plans for an ornithopter in 1488, hundreds of engineers and inventors have pursued the. Design and development of the atlas human powered helicopter cameron robertson cameron. The large area of hpv can be divided into many categories. Ce8604 highway engineering lecture notes, books, important. Incorporation of the university of maryland human powered helicopter project to illustrate the engineering design process in action the adoption of the national academy of engineering s grand challenges for engineering to provide an indication of future directions for engineering. Unlike airplanes, helicopters feature spinning wings called blades or rotors on top. The main aim of this paper is to design commercially available vehicle for an adventure sporting under 56 lakh indian rupees. This volume, preliminary design, is part one of a threepart engineering design handbook titled helicopter engineering. Process optimization using response surface methodology. Aerovelo first developed the snowbird human powered ornithopter, which sustained altitude and airspeed for 19. The sikorsky prize required a human powered helicopter to sustain flight for 60 s, momentarily reach a height of 3 m, and maintain position within a 10by10m area.
Next came the atlas human powered helicopter, which won the ahs igor i. This experience led into design optimization and refinement of the. A humanpowered helicopter hph is a helicopter powered solely by one or more humans. The main goal in any attempt should be to minimize the vehicle mass in the initial concept stage, rather than drilling holes.
Atlas humanpowered helicopter ahs sikorsky prize flight. If you are thinking this is simple to create you may wrong. A helicopter, sometimes referred to in slang as a chopper, is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by one or more horizontallyspinning rotors. When it comes to aircraft, the sleek lines and lightningfast speeds of airplanes can easily amaze people. In pursuit of the sikorsky prize, two human powered helicopters have been designed by a. Human powered helicopter which uses man power to operate. The various aspects of helicopter design and human powered aircraft design were studied to present a program to build a human powered helicopter hph at the naval postgraduate school.
On june, 20, aerovelos human powered helicopter atlas won the ahs igor i. American helicopter society future vertical lift aircraft design conference, at san francisco, ca. The hph will be designed to meet the requirements for the ahssikorsky award. On june 20, it became the first aircraft to achieve the goals of the competition and thus won the prize. Students set new humanpowered helicopter flight record. Military helicopter design technology reprint edition. A new design for a humanpowered helicopter request pdf. It is easily read and understood and would be good from around age twelve and up. When you are at the limit of human power output, 40% can make a big difference. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Incorporation of the university of maryland human powered helicopter project to illustrate the engineering design process in action. Leonardos human powered helicopter design concept duration. The monumental feat required a human to hover to an altitude of 3 metres under hisher own power, and to remain aloft for at least 1 minute. Human powered helicopter mechanical engineering project.
Sikorsky human powered helicopter competition was a competition to achieve the first humanpowered helicopter flight to reach an altitude of 3 m 10 ft during a flight lasting at least 60 seconds, while remaining within a 10 m 32. On june th, 20, the aerovelo atlas humanpowered helicopter captured the long standing ahs sikorsky prize with a flight lasting 64. A human powered helicopter from the university of maryland joseph schmaus, benjamin berry, graham bowendavies, brandon bush, chen friedman, mor gilad, ananth sridharan. The various aspects of helicopter design and human powered aircraft design are studied to present a program to design and build a hurman powered helicopter mph at the naval postgraduate school. First step for humandriven copter is tiny but in the.
The helicopter design is refined, and the feasibility of construction is assessed. An aerostructural optimization framework was developed for rotor design, including a novel vortexring aerodynamic model with included ground effect prediction. A quixotic kickstarterfunded project has won the sikorsky prize, one of the most elusive goals in aviation, by keeping a human powered helicopter aloft for more than a minute. Gamera, a human powered helicopter designed and constructed by students at the university of maryland flew several times in 2011 with a maximum recorded flight time of 11. Human powered helicopter is not a new concept, this was created and flown successfully multiple times. Design and development of the atlas humanpowered helicopter. The american helicopter society ahs internationals igor i. Dawra human powered helicopter design and analysis. Aerovelo initiated the atlas human powered helicopter project in august 2011 to win the american helicopter society sikorsky prize, which despite prior attempts had remained unclaimed for over 30 years. Woods2 graduate students alfred gessow rotorcraft center department of aerospace engineering. This structural design is extremely lightweight and strong. Sikorsky human powered helicopter competition, which had gone unclaimed for 33 years, represents the third largest monetary prize in aviation history.
The nps institutional archive theses and dissertations thesis collection 199106 human powered helicopter. Request pdf a new design for a humanpowered helicopter this document reports the methodology and results of a human powered helicopter study conducted at the university of texas at arlington. Sikorsky humanpowered helicopter competition collo. The aerovelo atlas is a human powered helicopter hph that was built for ahs internationals igor i. American institute of aeronautics and astronautics 12700 sunrise valley drive, suite 200 reston, va 201915807 703. This term includes all vehicles that are powered only by muscularstrength. Toronto, on, canada abstract aerovelo initiated the atlas human powered helicopter project in august 2011 to capture the ahs sikorsky prize. Several skid designs were tested, and showed that none of the designs. Bulky, oddlyshaped helicopters rarely incite the same kinds of feelings. Helicopter design and data manual discusses the basics of helicopter design including aerodynamic theory and fundamentals for rotorcraft, airframe structure, mechanics and design of rotor heads, tail rotors, control linkage, and blade construction, and selection of proper materials. But you can find hpvs in the air, in and under the water and also on the rail. A road map to a rewarding career exploded onto the market in 1995, it has become the best selling introduction to engineering textbook of all time. Pdf gamera, a human powered helicopter designed and constructed by students. By contrast the autogyro or gyroplane and gyrodyne have a freespinning rotor for all or part of the flight envelope, relying on a separate thrust system to propel the craft forwards, so that the.
The humanpowered helicopter the aeronautical journal. As the name suggests the helicopter flies entirely by human power ie, mostly pedalling. After the winning the sikorsky prize, the team went on to set both the womens and mens helicopter endurance records, as well as quadrupling the total number of people to ever fly a human powered helicopter, when the entire engineering team got their chance to fly atlas on september 24th, 20. Design and fabrication of ultralightweight composite structures for the gamera human powered helicopters william staruk, benjamin woods, benjamin berry, graham bowendavies alfred gessow rotorcraft center, university of maryland 3181 glenn l. University of maryland gamera ii humanpowered helicopter. Analysis is carried out with modified forms of the axial momentum theory to take into account the ground effect. The world record for humanpowered helicopters was held by a craft named yuri i, built by a. The hpmi will be designed to meet the requirements for the anssikorsky award. Once you learn about what helicopters can do, though, you might think twice the next time you see one.
This places the design of the human powered helicopter in an uncharted territory. During the recordbreaking 64 second flight, atlas reached a height of 3. This is a good book for the layperson who wants to learn how helicopters function and why. Martin hall, university of maryland college park, md 20742 abstract.