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The [[Royal Aeronautical Society]]'s "Man Powered Aircraft Group" was formed in 1959 by the members of the Man Powered Group of the [[Cranfield University|College of Aeronautics]] at [[Cranfield]] when they were invited to join the Society. (Its title was changed from "Man" to "Human" in 1988 because of the many successful flights made by female pilots.{{Citation needed|date=July 2013}})
Under the auspices of the Society, in 1959 the industrialist [[Henry Kremer]] offered the first [[Kremer prizes|Kremer Prizes]] of £5,000 for the first human-powered aircraft to fly a figure-of-eight course round two markers half-a-mile apart. It was conditional that the designer, entrant pilot, place of construction and flight must all be British.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Flying Magazine|journal = Flying|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GUSqNw60iJkC&pg=PA36|date=June 1963|pages=36–|issn=0015-4806}}</ref>
=== Kremer Prize successes ===
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