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Season 5 · Episode 11 ·
Icarus' Children
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.
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Episode 11 of season 5 of NOVA: “Icarus' Children”. Aired 1978-03-29. Watch it online free on ZapFlix.