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The MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department's Daedalus was a human-powered aircraft〔John McIntyre, (Man's Greatest Flight ), ''AeroModeller'', August 1988 (in files of Royal Aeronautical Society Human Powered Aircraft Group) (accessed Nov. 13 2012)〕 that, on 23 April 1988, flew a distance of 71.5 mi (115.11 km) in 3 hours, 54 minutes, from Iraklion on the island of Crete to the island of Santorini. The flight holds official FAI world records for total distance, straight-line distance, and duration for human-powered aircraft. The craft was named after the mythological inventor of aviation, Daedalus, and was inspired by the Greek myth of Daedalus' escape from Crete using manmade wings. There were actually three aircraft constructed: * ''Light Eagle'' (originally ''Michelob Light Eagle''): a 42 kg (92 lb) prototype. * ''Daedalus 87'': Crashed during testing at Rogers Dry Lake (NASA Dryden Flight Research Center) on 17 February 1988, and was rebuilt as a backup. * ''Daedalus 88'': Flew from Crete to just off the beach on Santorini. Both ''Daedalus 87'' and ''Daedalus 88 weighed 31 kg (69 lb). All three aircraft were constructed at the MIT Lincoln Lab Flight Facility at Hanscom Field outside Boston, Massachusetts, by a team of undergraduate students, faculty, and recent graduates of MIT. ==History== The MIT Daedalus project was the follow-on to several earlier human-powered aircraft flown at MIT, and was designed by veterans of the Chrysalis HPA〔(Chrysalis Human-Powered Airplane: It Flew the First Time Out ), Royal Aeronautical Society Human Powered Aircraft Group (accessed Nov. 13 2012)〕 and the MIT Monarch and Monarch-B missions.〔(http://www.humanpoweredflying.propdesigner.co.uk/html/daedalus.html ) Royal Aeronautical Society Human Powered Aircraft Group (accessed Nov. 13 2012)〕 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「MIT Daedalus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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