Is muscle powered helicopter flight possible?

Question

Is helicopter flight powered just by muscles possible?

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Answer 1

no. Look at a fly's huge wings, in comparison to its tiny body. For a human to fly, it would need giant wings powered by giant muscles.  My source is common sense.

Answer 2

no. you cant coast strait up.

Answer 3

You don't need to be a expert on this. It is entirely not possible. The forces you would need to produce to be able to lift your self of the ground in a muscled powered helicopter is physically  impossible.

Answer 4

It's been done.  It's called Da Vinci III.

Answer 5

Yes if you can have the pilot and copilot pedal at a speed of 5000 revolutions per minute generating enough torque to get the d**n thing airborne

Answer 6

A human powered airplane can at least glide... Even if you could get it into the air, I'd hate to be in a human-powered helicopter and run out of Wheaties, realizing that my muscle endurance is 10 minutes less than what I had planned on... Probably not a great result!

Answer 7

It has been done...just not successfully.

Answer 8

There are small airplanes powered by bicycle, but not all of them work  Helicopters are more a working aircraft and I doubt it.... Too dangerous to both steer and keep pedaling

Answer 9

Many experiments have been done in that direction but no adequate results have been obtained other than a few seconds flights and with the help of thermals and beginning  at some high point.