The Year People Learned to Fly
Clips from the 1978 Academy Award-winning documentary short, The Flight of the Gossamer Condor, used by permission.
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the flight of the Gossamer Condor.
One of the great home-built family maker projects celebrated its 30th anniversary on Aug. 23, 2007: the flight of the world’s first truly successful human-powered airplane, the Gossamer Condor.
The plane was designed and built by Dr. Paul B. MacCready, along with his family and friends, on weekends over a year’s time ...
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