11-th episode of 5-th season "NOVA"

"NOVA" 5 season 11-th episode

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