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The Gossamer Condor project took nearly nine months longer than its designers originally thought, and producers Jacqueline Phillips Shedd and Ben Shedd maintained their determined commitment to documenting the project. The result was the Gossamer Condor, with increased wing area to reduce drag. Narrated by Roger Steffens. Retrieved from " https: It is either on loan or in storage. This page was last edited on 26 June , at

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The Gossamer Condor aircraft is on display in the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Gissamer Museum where it hangs in an honored place beside the Wright Brothers' first airplane and the Apollo 11 moon capsule.

After one crash, the Condor condot carried off tenderly by many hands, exactly like a great wounded bird. It takes us inside the invention process and reveals how the magic combination of creativity, dedication, persistence combined with aluminum tubing, styrofoam, wire and mylar together made human-powered flight possible. The Gossamer Condor project took nearly nine months longer than its designers originally thought, and producers Jacqueline Phillips Shedd and Ben Shedd maintained their determined commitment to documenting the project.

You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. There was an immense risk involved in making a commitment to film a scientist's effort at achieving something which had never done before successfully. The pilot sat in a semireclining position with both hands free for the controls.

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cojdor Audible Download Audio Books. The Kremer Prize was established in by industrialist Henry Kremer. Shedd did extensive research into human-powered flight and recognized that if such flight were possible, Dr. Following the events as they occurred for almost an entire year, the production team filmed every stage of the plane's development.

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Boyd Estus and Oscar Williams. This page was last edited on 26 Juneat This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. The Flight of the Gossamer Condor tells the inspiring true story of history's first successful human-powered flight.

Views Read Edit View history. Throughout the first part ofmodifications steadily improved control and efficiency, and all efforts were rewarded with the August 23 prizewinning flight. Edited by Ben Shedd and Mary Bauer.

MacCready "Gossamer Condor"

Lissaman, both of Pasadena, California, designed the Gossamer Condor, which is made of thin aluminum tubes covered with mylar plastic and braced with stainless steel wires. Uplifting entertainment for all ages, this film by Jacqueline Phillips Shedd and Ben Shedd is an inspiring view of the creative process underlying all discovery and invention. Among his numerous awards, Dr.

Roberta Doheny - FX Recording: By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Collection Item Long Description: Trivia Has been remastered in HD and digitally restored from a new preservation print made by the Academy Film Archives for the 30th Anniversary of the Gossamer Condor's landmark human powered flight into aviation history.

Paul MacCready and his team were filmed creating the world-famous pedal-powered airplane as it happened. For turns, the other hand set a lever located beside the seat that controlled wires to twist the wing. MacCready when he did was "like finding the Wright Brothers just before they built their first gliders and following them to Kitty Hawk, camera in hand. Himself - Final Pilot Paul B. Many tried to no avail. Naturally it took a few tries, but they eventually succeeded and went on to win the Kremer Prize I doubt that I have to warn about spoilers; the documentary's title IS the spoiler.

Edit Did You Know? Edit Storyline The Flight of the Gossamer Condor tells the inspiring true story of history's first successful human-powered flight. The MacCready Gossamer Condor was the first human-powered aircraft capable of controlled and sustained flight; as such, it won the Kremer prize in The aircraft, piloted by amateur cyclist and hang-glider pilot Bryan Allen cpndor, won the first Kremer prize on Flght 23, by completing a figure-eight course specified by the Royal Aeronautical Societyat Minter Field in Shafter, California.