The spaceplane being developed by UK billionaire Sir Richard Branson has made its first powered flight.
Mrs Woodman was an 11-year-old girl when the Wright brothers made history with the first powered flight in 1903.
To some it might have seemed at odds with the new era of the atom bomb and jet-powered flight.
Ballistic missiles are guided during powered flight and then release their payloads, which are then subject only to gravity and atmospheric drag.
Its landmark event is the Man-Powered Flight, for which contestants build rudimentary wings and propellers and hurl themselves off the harbour wall, flapping wildly.
It was these prizes that inspired the biggest turning point in muscle-powered flight's history, and where the work of Dr. Paul MacCready and his various teams would start a new chapter in human-powered flight.
Less than 30 years after the invention of powered flight, British pilots were looking for an aviation record to beat their American rivals - who had already flown over both the North and South Poles.
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Virgin Galactic officials and Mr. Branson, a flamboyant entrepreneur who has pledged to take the first tourist flight along with members of his family, recently have declined to predict the date of the first powered flight or when paying passengers would take off.
Thorp loves Flightfox, a platform for crowdsourced (or human-powered) flight search, where contests last for 3 days.
That, and improving efficiency really made human powered-flight move from sustained hops and skips to the international crossings of the Albatross.
SpaceShipTwo, its inventively named commercial vehicle designed to take (well-moneyed) civilians into outerspace, has just completed its first rocket-powered test flight.
The Air Force is also testing jet engines using biofuels and had the first successful biofuel-powered test flight just last week.
Earlier this year, the airline Virgin Atlantic conducted the first commercial flight powered partly by biofuel.
The first night flight of a solar-powered craft in 2010 was followed by a first international flight in 2011, and first inter-continental flight in 2012.
Someone has achieved short bursts of human-powered, wing-flapping flight!
It was designed to climb about 40km (25 miles) into the sky during the powered phase of its two-minute flight.
This flight was important for a number of reasons, but in no small part because it represented the first controlled, sustained flight complete with human-powered takeoff.
Now the search giant is taking to the air, sponsoring the Green Flight Challenge, a competition to develop battery-powered aircraft.
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With this app available on the iPhone and on Android-powered smart devices, users can check their cargo movements, flight schedules, truck paging, and track shipments more closely and reliably.
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Speaking of sun-powered planes, the Solar Impulse just made its final test flight around the San Francisco Bay Area before embarking on a cross-country voyage next week.
Switzerland is home to several renewable energy projects, including the most advanced solar-powered aircraft, the Solar Impulse, which made its first international flight less than two weeks ago.
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In fact, a recent study by the Flight Safety Foundation found that 38% of all accidents in modern turbine-powered, glass-cockpit-equipped aircraft were likely or highly likely to have been prevented if the pilot had a HUD.
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And last year, defence firm Qinetiq flew a solar-powered plane for 54 hours, smashing the official world record for the longest-duration unmanned flight.
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