A second year student at the Technical University Delft has managed to design, build and fly his very own airbike, an ultralight airplane powered by muscle power. It may have only flown for two metres and as many seconds, but it’s something to be proud of nonetheless:
Ironically, “luchtfietsen” (to airbike) has a negative connotation here in the Netherlands, similar to “pie in the sky” in English, meaning to make wild, impractical, impossible plans… Not so much for Jesse van Kuijk!