{"id":1579575,"date":"2012-06-23T19:16:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T19:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/1579575\/"},"modified":"2012-06-23T19:16:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T19:16:10","slug":"gamera-ii-hph-previous-world-record-50-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/1579575\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamera II HPH Previous World Record: 50 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H0qfgBeb35Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nGamera II is the second human powered helicopter from the University of Maryland&#8217;s Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center.The NAA has certified this flight by Kyle Gluesenkamp as a new record at 49.9 seconds!<\/p>\n<p>This flight surpasses Colin Gore&#8217;s incredible 40-second flight in Gamera II of a couple days ago (http:\/\/youtu.be\/S-k-3efasOk), and a new world record for human powered helicopters!<\/p>\n<p>It has since been surpassed by Colin Gore in Gamera II XR who flew for an official 65.1 seconds in August 2012. http:\/\/www.fai.org\/fai-record-file\/?recordId=16616<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.agrc.umd.edu\/gamera\/<\/p>\n<p>This flight was almost five times longer than the current official record of 11.4 seconds, set by Judy Wexler in Gamera I last summer (http:\/\/youtu.be\/n-qFhcL9mg4), and over twice as long as the 19.4 second flight of Akira Naito&#8217;s Yuri I in 1994 (http:\/\/youtu.be\/aR2CV1OeUdU)<\/p>\n<p>The team is pursuing the American Helicopter Society International&#8217;s (AHS) Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Prize (http:\/\/vtol.org\/awards-and-contests\/human-powered-helicopter), which requires a 60-second flight and 3m (10 ft) altitude.<\/p>\n<p>Video Editing: Will Gross<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamera II is the second human powered helicopter from the University of Maryland&#8217;s Alfred Gessow Rotorcr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1579576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[593408],"tags":[818811,862197,862198,862202,862205,44156,862203,862200,431247,703251,233278,24301,565196,75245,314707,807754,862193,862194,862192,22015,862195,862187,862190,862188,862186,862189,867239,867238,862201,862206,862204,862196,862199,862191,862207,250843],"class_list":{"0":"post-1579575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2023-autumn","8":"tag-2023-autumn","9":"tag-aerospace-engineering","10":"tag-agrc","11":"tag-ahs","12":"tag-ahs-prize","13":"tag-aircraft","14":"tag-american-helicopter-society","15":"tag-aviation-record","16":"tag-carbon-fiber","17":"tag-college-park","18":"tag-engineering","19":"tag-experimental","20":"tag-fai","21":"tag-flight","22":"tag-gamera","23":"tag-gamera-rebirth","24":"tag-gamera-2","25":"tag-gamera-2-1","26":"tag-gamera-ii","27":"tag-helicopter","28":"tag-hph","29":"tag-human-powered","30":"tag-human-powered-aircraft","31":"tag-human-powered-flight","32":"tag-human-powered-helicopter","33":"tag-human-powered-hover","34":"tag-kyle-gluesenkamp","35":"tag-light-helicopter","36":"tag-naa","37":"tag-rotorcraft","38":"tag-sikorsky-prize","39":"tag-student-project","40":"tag-umd","41":"tag-university-of-maryland","42":"tag-vtol","43":"tag-world-record"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1579576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}