Suhpa Southampton University Human Powered Aircraft Society

Southampton University Human Powered Aircraft (SUHPA) is a group of students, setting out to build a competitive human powered aircraft. Our current aircraft, the Lazarus, is be our first attempt at human powered flight, and we aim to compete in the 2021 BHPFC Icarus cup. The aircraft few for the first time on the 14th pf June 2021 What is a Human Powered Aircraft? A human powered aircraft (HPA) is powered exclusively by the leg muscles of its pilot. It mist be built to be extremely lightweight, and designed with efficiency and simplicity in mind. What are we doing? We are currently working on the build of our Lazarus aircraft, with the goal of finishing it by 2021. Once the build is complete, we will run a series of static load tests to make sure our aircraft is ready for flight. We aim to fly at the 2021 Icarus Cup, alongside other British HPAs!