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University of Toronto engineers take flight to make history Aviation engineers at the University of Toronto are preparing to go down in history after filing their claim for the first successful continuous flight in a human-powered aircraft. Pilot Todd Reichert, an engineering PhD student at the school's Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), powered up the Snowbird to complete its record-breaking flight on 2 August (10) at the Great Lakes Gliding Club in Tottenham, Ontario. Reichert managed to keep the wing-flapping device in the air for 19.3 seconds, covering a distance of 145 metres at an average speed of 25.6 kilometres-per-hour. The feat was witnessed by the Canadian vice president of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI), the global governing body for air sports and aeronautical world records and the claim to the title was officially filed this month (Sep10). But the excited engineers will have to wait a little longer before they're crowned as the world record holders - the FAI will meet in October (10) when they are expected to confirm the bid. If they are handed the world record, the University of Toronto engineers will have achieved what no other team of braniacs has done before - turning Leonardo da Vinci's 1485 sketch for the first human-powered omithopter into a reality. (MT/WN)
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