MIT Daedalus
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mit-daedalus-203-10806019
title:
MIT Daedalus
text:
The MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department's Daedalus is a class of three human-powered aircraft that included Daedalus 88 – which, on 23 April 1988, flew a distance of 115.11 kilometres (71.53 mi) in 3 hours, 54 minutes, from Heraklion 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 class was named after the mythological inventor of aviation, Daedalus, and
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Experimental aircraft
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Daedalus
date created:
2004-12-16T21:25:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T18:56:42Z
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13
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