NOVA - Icarus' Children

Seizoen: 5 - Aflevering: 11 / 87 - Eerst uitgezonden: 29 maart 1978 - Episode ID: 384637

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.