Try To Fly By Man Power.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 16, 1913:
Fifty Inventors Compete Unsuccessfully for $2,000 Prize.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    PARIS, June 15.— Of more than fifty machines competing for The Matin prize of $2,000 for a flight of ten yards none has been found to win it, for it was a condition of the contest that the machines should be propelled by the force of human muscles alone. This competition was the second of its kind. It was intended to help evolve flying bicycles.
    Vigorously pedaled by their sanguine inventors, all sorts of curious machines came hurtling along the cement cycle track of the Parc des Princes, but each failed ignominously to leave the ground.
    One original design consisted of a bare framework mounted on a bicycle. The inventor pedaled with great speed, and, on reaching the place marked for the ten yards' leap, pulled a lever which instantly expanded a linen plane along the frame work after the manner of a spring blind.
    At this point he should have soared in the air. Instead, the machine veered wildly around, fell forward on its nose immediately in front of the cinematograph camera, and remained there for some minutes, with the legs of the inverted inventor, who was strapped to the seat, waving to and fro amid the roars of laughter from the crowd.
    There were other air-cycles with white beating wings, like flapping handkerchiefs. There was one model in which the ingenious would-be airman ran along with his plane mounted all around him, working a sort of sewing machine engine with his hands. In trying to avoid a dog he came to grief.
    After so many failures an enthusiastic burst of applause rewarded the most successful performance of the day when the back wheel of one aero-cyclist left the ground for a clear three yards.