29
July
2016
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21:18
Asia/Singapore

It's a bird - It's a new flying machine by NUS students

A team of eight students from the Design-Centric Programme at the NUS Faculty of Engineering have designed and built the world’s lightest electric paraglider trike, named The Delta. It weighs 49kg, can carry one person weighing up to 75kg and can fly up to 36kmh for 10 minutes. The NUS team had designed and built The Delta when they accepted a challenge to build a flying vehicle for a new National Geographic Channel series Machine Impossible.