LEO - Low Earth Orbit - HPHP - Human Powered Helicopter Project
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LEO: an airborne cycle for personal, sport & public transportation. As bicyclings Wright Brothers are Changemakers of a generation, LEO is a record-setting, environmental, hovering inspiration born of da Vinci's sketches/memory & handed to us to enter Igor I. Sikorsky's competition: http://vtol.org/awards/hph.html
Learning from all who have tried/died trying: http://www.humanpoweredhelicopters.org/sikorskyprize/index.htm pledge to innovation.
Wonderful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caHCbuh_Yyc Thanks Prof Naito!
About You
Section 1: About You
First Name
a
Last Name
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Organization
LEO - Low Earth Orbit - An End to Poverty
Country
Canada
Section 2: About Your Organization
Organization Name
LEO - Low Earth Orbit - An End to Poverty
Organization Website
Organization Phone
5148452654
Organization Address
Montreal, Quebec
Organization Country
Canada
Your idea
Are you a traveler or travel company?
Yes
Name Your Project
LEO - Low Earth Orbit - HPHP - Human Powered Helicopter Project
Country your work focuses on
What is the likely impact of your idea? (150 words max)
Earth impact: from bicycle enthusiasts to an airplane industry, from E=mc² to breakthroughs in science & technology in far less time & even less time from Burt Rutan, Richard Branson & Dr. Peter H. Diamandis to a thriving 'public' space industry & FROM ACROSS TIME, Leonardo's drawings flew into teamLEOnardo's hands, to inspire travel starved minds & bodies exhausted by imposing immigration rules, to ignite human awareness of our ability to reverse climate change. With help from our hp-friends, Greg @ http://www.pedaltheocean.com/ & Marcelo @ http://xof1.com/ LEO educates through imagination by turning history's wrongs into rights, by saying 'YES WE CAN' to a human-solar powered future. As “Earthlings”, we need to take transportation into our hands; as adults, we need to leave a legacy of following through with childhood inspirations/innovations &/or life-dreams! LEO, impacting HEARTS, MINDS & BODIES beyond age, gender &/or past failures in another’s hand is our…DREAM IMPACT!
Why is promoting global travel and engagement important? What makes your idea innovative? (200 words max)
Global (or further than yesterday) travel is the cornerstone upon which all nations (dreams) were built. Through thick & thin, engagement was the tool through which Intellectual Property could be shared, benefiting everyone involved. Centuries of innovation with Chinese hovering toys have circumnavigated Earth, inspiring American dreamers (Canadian, USian, Mexican), giving flight to countless conversations & innovations in aeronautical design. Naturally, our mission/our flight plan, is… the freedom to hover & roam… LEO is our seed of innovation on the wing! Next, we plant/partner LEO with eco- & geo-tourism & development projects to encourage global tourism; to offer a new & very important perspective of the land where “the people live” & to personally engage humanity with the most natural & pleasing resource available, to flying creatures; the beauty & fragility of our planet, from above! It’s teamLEOnardo’s dream that it’s important to you, that LEO’s… DREAM AWAKENS!
Describe Your Idea
LEO: an airborne cycle for personal, sport & public transportation. As bicyclings Wright Brothers are Changemakers of a generation, LEO is a record-setting, environmental, hovering inspiration born of da Vinci's sketches/memory & handed to us to enter Igor I. Sikorsky's competition: http://vtol.org/awards/hph.html
Learning from all who have tried/died trying: http://www.humanpoweredhelicopters.org/sikorskyprize/index.htm pledge to innovation.
Wonderful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caHCbuh_Yyc Thanks Prof Naito!
What would it take to launch or spread your idea? How much would it cost to make your idea a reality? (150 words max)
Reality? HISTORIC EVENT! LEO prepares to win Sikorsky's Competition. The human & solar powered (public) transportation dream is realized as the healthy choice for billions. A change in human being/mobility requires new immigration laws. Earth from above, in Condé Nast Traveler’s 2nd article, PedalLEOtour2010: raising the ‘travel bar’ to hovering above GREEN, helps to sustain a human powered (helicopter) industry. Global relations change. After dreaming up a ‘far-fetched-flying idea’ my Wright Brothers must have wondered if bicycles would be ‘sustained’ by 'twittering, innovating or recycling' their inventions. SO, sustaining LEO is in the hands of the hungry! The REALITY is the cost of life! With an ability to willingly cross borders, LEO announces the beginning of the END of POVERTY. Later, we upgrade LEO with a solar-electric engine giving older people a new way to explore retirement/a new life, encouraging youth to stay healthy & young. LEO's REALITY…POVERTY’s END…DREAM LAUNCH!
Describe your work as a social innovator (150 words max)
As Earthlings our work is so innovative, it is not yet well known worldwide, but greatly received in local regions. Our seed/kind of grassroots innovation comes from (35+) years of travel experience between the mates of teamLEOnardo. From Los Angeles to Nepal, Alaska to South America, India to Europe and Australia to Japan & many more places/routes in between, our unique brand of social innovation begins, where our birth places end - sowing in us all an indigenous nature to roam - free from the ignorance of borders in our new global village, Earth! In teamLEOnardo's workshop, the sound of social innovation is in the voices of contributors visiting their investment from time to time, where helping out gives them a "hands on" experience of home/hand-made fun, education & community supported activity! The PedalLEOtour2010 will be LEO's way of giving back to all the 'global villages' visited along the way. For teamLEOnardo, social innovation is giving LEO your 'two cents' by reserving a pilot's seat in your name with comments & suggestions, by pitching in where LEO needs help, & by reminding others to stay tuned for Hover Day. VOTE for your FREEDOM, earthling, thank you! DREAM SHARED!
Please send me more information about Conde Nast Traveler and special offers
Yes, I would like more information about Conde Nast Traveler and special offers.
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"If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we MUST [expect to] employ methods never before attempted."
Sir Francis Bacon
(1561‐1626)
Wondering if LEO's dream has stirred the creative-invention-juices of anyone out there? We must step outside the familiar box to change other things outside our Western boxes: POVERTY, CLIMATE CHANGE, FEAR of TRAVEL, CULTURAL TERRORISM / ignorance; all such UN-touchable unless we step out, "bear our arms open wide", and embrace these issues as our own!!!!!!!
Media & the many things we learn & watch on our tube (TV/comps), takes us all places around the world, regardless of the lack of actual travel. Our eyes influence our minds & our perspective influences our travels. Policy is influenced by both. Do we have the power to change policy? Then let's all DO 'SOW' OUTSIDE THE FAMILIAR BOX! Here's a competition i really like: http://wemedia.com/2009/07/20/these-designs-are-not-legal-tender/ Maybe something real will come of it, more than on paper alone. Right...?
It appears that we the People do dream of creating our world, better! Stranger things have happened. With all the NEW USD images (a sign of a country's growth) it always inspires me to "TRAVEL" (to Japan; have you seen their money?) Cool! Let's find a way to work together to make more than one, two or three dreams happen at Changemakers. Stranger things do tend to happen... OUTSIDE THE BOX... when we choose, to see/be that dream!
Will-come US-All; PLEASE COMMENT here & we will 'receive' your pitching-in & discussing things closer to the heart as a vote & reservation to pilot LEO in 2010, our new friend!