Aired
March 29, 1978
NOVA
NOVA
Icarus' Children #S05E11
In the summer of 1977 Paul MacCready, a California scientist and businessman, won the coveted Kremer Prize. His achievement was to design and build an airplane which completed, unaided, a one-mile figure-eight course entirely under the power provided by the pilot himself. This is the story of those many failures and MacCready's success.
Episode 11 of Season 5 from NOVA — available to stream in HD on any device.
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