Abstract
This chapter highlights the United Kingdom miscellany of the 1960s in the design of aircrafts. Several proposals for man-powered aircraft were submitted in the early 1960s to the Royal Aeronautical Society's Man-Powered Aircraft Group for consideration. Only a few received grants, but notes on the efforts of less fortunate would-be contestants for the Kremer prize reveal several points of interest, not least the similarity of many of the designs, varying only in the arrangement of their common components, which tended to be of similar dimensions. The majority of the design studies showed evidence of a complete lack of economic judgment so typical of enthusiasts. The largest of the first generation of man-powered aircraft conceived and constructed in Britain in the early 1960s was the product of the Southend Man-Powered Aircraft Group. The Southampton University aircraft and the two machines constructed at Hatfield were remarkable because of their success. However, it is desirable, if not necessary, in a work such as this to deal with less successful contemporary machines or those that only reached the design study stage.
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