Take-off from Folkestone, 0551 a.m., with the early morning light filtering through the Mylar covering.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: MacCready Gossamer Albatross / Penguin - СШАUSA - 1979

Another achievement, though no less impressive, was the first (and still the only) cross-Channel flight by a human-powered aeroplane, the Gossamer Albatross, designed by Dr Paul MacCready and powered by Bryan Allen, who produced 0-30 h.p. for 2hr 49min on the flight from Folkestone, England, to Cap Gris Nez, France, on June 12, 1979, to win the £100,000 prize offered by British industrialist Henry Kremer. Even this was overshadowed on April 23, 1988, when John McIntyre pedalled the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Daedalus on a 74-mile, 3hr 54min flight across the Sea of Crete from Heraklion to Santorini.
Arrival at Wissant, 0840. The slow-turning propeller, conspicuous in most photographs, weighs only 3lb, and has an impressive efficiency of 88 per cent. Extensive use of modern technology materials is a feature of the structure, the basic frame being of carbon fibre tubing.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: MacCready Gossamer Albatross / Penguin - СШАUSA - 1979

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: MacCready Gossamer Albatross / Penguin - СШАUSA - 1979

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: MacCready Gossamer Albatross / Penguin - СШАUSA - 1979

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: MacCready Gossamer Albatross / Penguin - СШАUSA - 1979