{"id":202585349,"date":"2011-06-03T17:42:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T17:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=202585349"},"modified":"2011-06-03T17:42:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T17:42:29","slug":"university-of-maryland-engineers-cop-copter-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=202585349","title":{"rendered":"University of Maryland engineers cop &#8216;copter records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Frank D. Roylance, The Baltimore Sun<br \/>\nThe delicate craft was airborne for just 4.2 seconds, but it was enough to earn engineering students at the University of Maryland&#8217;s Clark School of Engineering two world records for human-powered helicopter flight.<br \/>\nThe National Aeronautic Association, which observed the flight, has certified that UM biology student and bicycle racer Judy Wexler pedaled the four-rotor Gamera into the air on May 12 in a gym at the Comcast Center. It was the final attempt in two days of tests.<br \/>\nThe NAA said the brief flight established the U.S. national duration records for both human-powered helicopter flight, and for human-powered helicopter flight by a female pilot. The association has submitted its records to the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, in Switzerland, to be evaluated for world records in the same categories.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/articles.baltimoresun.com\/2011-06-02\/news\/bs-md-helicopter-records-20110602_1_human-powered-helicopter-flight-maryland-weather-blog-engineers\">https:\/\/articles.baltimoresun.com\/2011-06-02\/news\/bs-md-helicopter-records-20110602_1_human-powered-helicopter-flight-maryland-weather-blog-engineers<\/a>oldId.20110603174229765<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Frank D. Roylance, The Baltimore Sun The delicate craft was airborne for just 4.2 seconds, but it was enough to earn engineering students at the University of Maryland&#8217;s Clark School of Engineering two world records for human-powered helicopter flight. The National Aeronautic Association, which observed the flight, has certified that UM biology student and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=202585349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;University of Maryland engineers cop &#8216;copter records&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202585349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202585349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202585349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202585349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202585349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202585349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202585349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}