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Airglow is a human powered aircraft. It was designed and developed by brothers John and Mark McIntyre of Cambridgeshire, England. ==Development== John McIntyre holds a marine engineering degree, and Mark McIntyre is a professional model-builder, both brothers were keen aero-modelers and had a history of building creative contraptions including a sail-propelled-bicycle and a hot-air-balloon which carried a camera. Work on Airglow began after John accompanied Daedalus on its epic flight. Airglow was built over a three-year period to exacting standards, any part not perfect was scrapped and re-built. Testament to this is the fact that airglow is one of the lightest HPA ever built, and has had a flying life longer than any other. Airglow took longer to build than was expected, in Johns words “We thought that if Dr Who could build a trans-dimensional flux damper in less than one episode that what we wanted to do would be simple” 〔(Propdesigner )〕 Unlike many HPA builders Airglow wasn’t built to break records or win Kremer prizes. Johns states that it was built ‘for delight’ and because ‘it’s fun to make things’. Airglow first flew at 6am on 20-July-1990 at Duxford Airfield, England. The pilot was seventeen-year-old Nick Weston. Airglow’s first performance was impressive, the aircraft flew on only the 2nd attempt, and by the end of the day had managed three more flights, the longest being about a quarter of a mile. Over the next five years airglow made between 50 and 100 flights with no accidents. Typical flights would be the length of the runway, the longest flight was about 2 miles long. In 1992 Airglow was taken to Germany and flown by Peer Frank (designer of Velair 88 and Velair 89) at the Grob airfield at Mindelheim.〔() Peer Frank - Skytech]〕 Pressure of work meant that after 1995 airglow rarely flew, in 2010 it was passed on to the Royal Aeronautical Society. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Airglow (aircraft)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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