Distance Record Set for Human-Powered Flight;Student Overcomes Pedal Slippage, Loss of Water Supply in 37.2-Mile Trip Over Desert

From: The Washington Post | Date: January 23, 1987| Author: | Copyright information

A Connecticut medical student, dressed in shorts and T-shirt on a freezing desert morning, overcame dehydration and faulty pedals today to break the world distance record for human-powered flight.

Glenn Tremml's 2-hour, 13-minute, 14-second flight in a thin-winged craft that he outweighed almost ended in its first half-hour when the clamp beneath his right shoe slipped off the pedal and left him frantically groping for leverage. He also discovered that his water supply had been almost completely cut off by accident, giving him no way to replace three pounds of fluid he would lose from ...

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