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What "NOVA" 11-th episode about
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.
Episode number: 11
Episode name: "Icarus' Children"
Episode release date: 30 march 1978 at 02:00
Status: aired