The History of Man-Powered Flight

The Author

Preface

Photo Credits

Chapter 1: Mythology or Fact: Flight in Early Civilizations

Chapter 2: Leonardo da Vinci - A Scientist among Sceptical Philosophers

Chapter 3: The Nineteenth Century - the Zenith of the Ornithopter

Chapter 4: The Sublime and the Ridiculous

Chapter 5: Pre-War Germany - The 'Muskelflug Institut' and Haessler's 'Mufli' Aircraft

Chapter 6: The Spotlight Turns to Italy and Russia

Chapter 7: A Period of Reappraisal - Measurements of Man-Power and Studies of Bird and Insect Flight

Chapter 8: Formation of the Man-Powered Aircraft Committee at Cranfield

Chapter 9: The Kremer Competition - Catalyst for Worldwide Activity, and the First Entrant

Chapter 10: 'Puffin' and her Contemporaries - A Professional Approach

Chapter 11: A United Kingdom 'Miscellany' of the 1960s

Chapter 12: The First Man-Powered Flight Simulator - One of Several Canadian Projects

Chapter 13: Projects in Japan, Austria, South Africa and the United States

Chapter 14: Man-Powered Rotorcraft and the Persistence of the 'Bird-Men'

Chapter 15: Research and Development Work - The Basis for a New Generation of Aircraft?

Chapter 16: One or Two Pilots? - 'Toucan' and Other Current Machines

Chapter 17: Future Prospects

Appendices

I: Patents

II: Conversion Factors

III: Abbreviations

IV: Bibliography

V: Kremer Competition Rules

VI: Definitions

Addendum: Has the Kremer Competition Been Won?

Index