Prop Designer blog

What’s stopping you building a human powered aircraft? If you want to build one it is easier than ever, especially when compared to the pioneers in the 1960’s. New materials like Carbon fibre have come along, new aerofoils like the DAE series and computers to help the design. There is, of course, the nearly 50 years of previous HPAs for inspiration so there is very little reason not to start a design.

There are, however, the same old problems of where to fly. Most people do not have a 1,000 metre runway nearby and even if they do getting permission is not going to be easy as runways are usually used by other planes that pay for the privilege of using the runway.

I was informed today there was a problem accessing the forum (Thanks Sky Captain) so I invertigated and found I had access problems with FireFox and Chrome. I ,of course, was using something different, Internet Explorer which had no problems. The link has been changed from a button with Javascript to just a link to click on and this seems to have solved the problem. Please let me know if this is not the case.