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‘It was beautiful,’ Brandon Bush, 29, a doctoral student and project manager said. ‘It jumped up, and it stayed there,’ he told the Washington Post.

Gamera is a huge 60ft long and each rotor is 42ft in diameter. The model is made from carbon fibre, foam and balsa wood, weighs just 140lbs.

A flight tape will have to be verified, but a National Aeronautical Association judge says it appears the students have set a record.

However they fell short of winning the $250,000 Sikorsky Award, which is run by the American Helicopter Society and was issued in 1980.

The prize is for the first engineers who can build a human-powered helicopter reaching an altitude of at least three meters and hovering for at least one minute.

Third time: The students' attempt was theIan Higginson

Ian Higginson (born 10 May 1947) is a former New Zealand cricket umpire. He stood in one Test match, New Zealand vs. Sri Lanka, in 1983 and two ODI games between 1983 and 1984.

See also
 List of Test cricket umpires
 List of One Day International cricket umpires

References

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Category:New Zealand Test cricket umpires
Category:New Zealand One Day International cricket umpires