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Flight of the Gossamer Condor

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Audience/Grade: High School Junior - Continuing Education
Discipline(s): Aerospace Engineering
Learning Resource Type: Teaching - Lecture/Presentation
Media Type:

 Video
Author(s): Paul MacCready, MIT, Lemelson-MIT Program
Description: Video of Paul MacCready. Available in RealPlayer format in 56k or high bandwidth. "The debut flight of Gossamer Condor rewrote the history of aviation and captured the world's attention. Flight of the Gossamer Condor, Ben Shedd's 1978 documentary of the construction and flight of the plane, won an Academy Award for best documentary, short subject. This excerpt is on view at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum."
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Keywords: Paul MacCready, Condor Gossamer, human-powered flight
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References Image of MacCready's "Gossamer Condor"
   
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Related ABET Criteria: (c) Design a system, component, or process
Use of Resource: Rare images and footage of Paul MacCready.
Difficulty: Medium
Interactivity Level: Low

   
Version Info
Publication Date: 2008
Platform/Format: WWW
Cost: Free
Download URL: http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/ima/maccready_video.html
Metadata: IEEE LOM Record
Collection: NEEDS NEEDS