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Whatever you happened to do this past week likely doesn't match up to the students from the Clark School of Engineering at University of Maryland that broke their own record for human-powered helicopter flight. The helicopter in question, the Gamera II, relies entirely on human-power from a series of pedals for flight and was flown for 50 seconds. Considering that there's a $250,000 prize on the line this suddenly seems a lot more impressive.