Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition less than 9.8 meters. AHS International awarded AeroVelo the prize July 11th, after its Helicopter Competition Committee reviewed the flight data. Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition The Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition was established in 1980 by the American Helicopter Society (AHS) International. The award, the AHS Sikorsky Prize, was given for the first human powered helicopter (HPH) to meet a set of extremely challenging flight requirements. In summary, the requirements to win the AHS Sikorsky Prize included a flight duration of 60 seconds and reaching an altitude of , with the center point of the
Sikorsky Memorial Airport Sikorsky Memorial Airport Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Airport is a public airport in Fairfield County, Connecticut, owned by the city of Bridgeport. It is three miles (6 km) southeast of downtown, in the town of Stratford. It was formerly "Bridgeport Municipal Airport". It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a national general aviation facility. It has three Fixed-Base Operators (FBO's) and several private hangars. In 2016, Tailwind Air Service initiated seaplane service between Sikorsky and the New York Skyports Seaplane Base in central Manhattan.