Great Idea.

Haven't posted in a while.. it's easy to forget about. I've recently become addicted to the facebook game Farmville. And I hate to tell you, chris, it's getting a little tiring. I'm trying to keep my crops on a regular rotation and i'm probably going to start planting more long term crops so I don't have to check it so often. Tonight I'm going to play some tackle football next to the airport, which will be freaking awesome. 

OK here's the great idea. Last night I came across something I had never considered before.       

http://www.skytec-engineering.de/hpa.html 

- human powered flight. Thats right, someone pedaled one of these sons-of-bitches across the english channel. I am really excited by this. A few years back my brother bicycled up and down the east coast to raise money for childhood cancer research. His original idea was to ride across america to combat childhood obesity. 

I think I might be able to realize Austin's original goal of biking across the country to battle childhood obesity. Except I would much rather do it through the air. Physical fitness is something that has completely fallen by the wayside in our society, and what child's imagination wouldn't be captured by a flying bike? This could not only combat childhood obesity, but be used to raise awareness about being healthy and active for everyone. 

We (humans) invented airframes capable of flight before we invented engines capable of generating adequate thrust to make them fly. Only very recently have we invented materials light enough to allow human powered flight. As a consequence this genre of flying machine is still totally undeveloped. I think a safe, reliable, man-powered machine could be developed for a reasonably cheap price. And I think an organization/company willing to sponsor a trans-continental human-powered flight "for a cause" can most definitely be found.