The opening up of the Kremer competition to the world brought forth Professor Hidemasa Kimura and students from the Nihon University in Tokyo and a series of man powered aircraft, one of which achieved a straight line flight of 2095 m (2290 yards) in January 1977.
Professor Kimura’s balsa wood and rice paper Stork had by 1977 doubled John Potter’s record in Japan and was in the running for the Kremer prize.
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