As the leader of Southampton University's Human powered aircraft Society (SUHPA), I designed Super Lazarus, an aircraft powered exclusively by the pilot's pedalling action. 

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This is an enormous challenge, because the aircraft must lift the pilot's weight as well as its own using only 0.5 of a horsepower. It must also be controllable and safe for the pilot.

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I produced a design for a 24m span, 45kg aircraft with fly-by-wire controls and an all carbon composite structure. The wing is wire braced at the half semi-span point. I also designed the aircraft's 3m diameter propeller, for the first time using 3D printing to produce the complex blades cores, which are skinned in a thin layer of carbon fibre. Each propeller blade has a mass of only 350g.