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Belated news that there was a flight by Airglow at Lasham to celebrate the 50th anniversary of SUMPACs first flight on 9^th November. See here for some photos.

More information on the Lasham event here.

Airglow has been refurbished by a team led by Dr Bill Brooks of P&M aviation and has been flying at Cotwolds airport in England. Dr Brooks is a committee member of the RAeS HPAG.

See here for photos.

Southampton University is building a new HPA a mere 50 years after the last one they built, to compete in the Kremer sports prize. There is a web site here and a twitter feed here

PSU Zephyrus have some videos on Youtube at here and here.

A new HPA is being built in Yanam, India called Dream fly.

Shivakrishna.N.K. by Dream fly

The wing span is 21 metres and the propeller diameter is 11 feet, projected weight of 40 Kg

News has reached me of a planned event by RAeS HPAG at Lasham next year, see events.

 A new HPA is being designed and built by students of Sherbrooke University in Quebec called Pégase in Canada, See here for more information. English version is available.

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_9058000/9058646.stm for information on a HPA being built by students at Bath University.

A clip from the BBC breakfast show showing David Barford and Fred To.

This site has just announced an on-line symposium on human powered flight. See symposium.

Jesse van Kuijk is flying again this year and has made a number of short flights.

There is a new web site for a tailless an aircraft called Carbon Condor.

First human powered flight in the Netherlands on 9th August 2009 by Jesse van Kuijk, a 19 year old student at Delft university in a HPA named Abhilasha at Kempen Airport. See his web site here for more information

Jesse van Kuijk flying Abhilasha. Picture copyright Jesse van Kuijk

News has recently reached me of a new and as yet unnamed HPA under construction. (See below).Update. It is now called “Betterfly”

There is a video of a test of the propulsion system at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8eAeBJUjjA

Iron Butterfly is still under construction at Virginia Tech, USA.

Zephyrus is another HPA aiming at the Kremer sports prize under construction at Penn State University, see the library for details.

Events

Bognor Birman was on September 11^th and 12^th, see http://www.birdman.org.uk/. The Worthing Birdman last year was August 14^th and 15^th, see http://www.worthingbirdman.co.uk/ for results and how to enter this year’s contest.

The Japanese birdman event last year (2010) was on July 24^th and 25^th. Meister won with a distance of 18,556.82m. It is in July this year.

An on-line symposium is planned for next year (2012). Start planning your submissions now. See symposium for more information.

The RAeS HPAG is hosting an event at Lasham, Hampshire, England in 2012 between the Saturday 14^th and Sunday 22^nd July. That’s just before the Olympics in London starting on 27th July.