Thursday, April 10, 1986
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Human-powered craft to fly 69 miles
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Scientists, attempting to accomplish in reality what Daedalus did in myth, announced yesterday that they were trying to build a human-powered aircraft and fly it 69 miles from Crete to the Greek mainland.
The feat — if accomplished — would triple the distance of the world record for human-powered aircraft.
Representatives of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said at a news conference that they had investigated the attack. The aircraft will fly the shortest open-water trait between the island of Crete and Greece.
The aircraft, specially made for stability in winds and other turbulance, will weigh 70 pounds
The plane will be made of high-technology graphite, similar to that used for expensive tennis rackets. The graphite is strong but light material, developed in recent years and ideal for flying.
and stretch 102 feet from wing to wing. It will be powered by a pedaling device and flown by a single pilot with athletic abilities and endurance.
The project is called Daedalus after the mythical Greek inventor who used homemade wings to fly to freedom with his son, Icarus, from the island of Crete. Legend has it that Daedalus was the first mortal ever to touch the sky.
Icarus, according to the myth, flew so high that the sun's heat melted the wax that held his wings, and he fell to his death in the sea.
John Langford, Daedalus project manager, said that the plane would be able to fly 15 mph and that the journey should take at least four hours matching the mythical path of Daedalus.
Langford said the earliest the plane could take off was next spring.
Langford, an aerodynamics engineer and a doctoral degree candidate at MIT, said the flight was technically possible.
The team also said it had designed and built an advanced wing structure.
The Daedalus team reported that experimental research conducted during the past year had produced an airfoil with one-third less drag.
The current record for human-powered flight was set by the Gossamer Albatross in 1979 when it crossed the English Channel.
Meteorologists say favorable winds and temperatures exist only during three months of the year for such a journey — March, April and September, which means the earliest possible flight date for project Daedalus is the spring of 1987.
Wife of head of police in Sweden threatened
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden — The wife of the Stockholm police chief, who is heading the investigation into the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme, has been threatened for the second time in a week, authorities said yesterday.
Newspapers linked the threats to the investigation led by Stockholm police Chief Hans Holmer, suggesting they were warnings to him to give up the search for the assassin. Palme was gunned down Feb. 28 as he left a movie theatre with his wife.
The most recent threat occurred Tuesday night. Ingrid Holmer, 42, the wife of the police chief, was jogging alone in a forest when two knife-wielding men wearing masks and leather jackets threatened her, police sources told newspapers.
"This is the last warning," the sources quoted the assailants as saying.
The woman was then thrown into a ditch where she fell against a stone and fainted, the newspapers Expressen and Aftonbladet reported.
Two bodyguards posted at the Holmer home after the first threat, which occurred April 1, became concerned when Ingrid Holder did not return on schedule. After a brief search, they found her wandering in a state of shock in the forest, the reports said.
She was treated at a hospital and was later released.
The earlier threat came on a street near the scene of Palme's murder from a man who reportedly resembled the description of a suspected accomplice in the assassination.
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