Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition 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 aircraft hovering over a square. In 2013, 33 years after the competition was established, the award was officially declared won when
Sikorsky (crater) named after Igor Sikorsky, a Russian-American aviation pioneer. By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Sikorsky. Sikorsky (crater) Sikorsky is a crater on the far side of the Moon. It is situated behind the southeastern limb of the Moon, just out of sight from the Earth. It lies to the northwest of the huge walled plain Schrödinger. To the northwest is the smaller crater Moulton. In 1967 the Lunar Orbiter 4 photographed this region in high resolution, discovering a 310-km-long gouge cutting through