The Flight of the Gossamer Condor is a 1978 American short documentary film directed by Ben Shedd, about the development of the Gossamer Condor, the first...
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The MacCready Gossamer Condor was the first human-powered aircraft capable of controlled and sustained flight; as such, it won the Kremer prize in 1977...
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gauze-like fabric Gossamer may also refer to: Gossamer Condor, the first human-powered aircraft capable of controlled and sustained flight Gossamer Albatross...
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soaring champion. Gossamer Albatross was his second human-powered aircraft, the first being the Gossamer Condor, which had won the first Kremer prize...
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51st Academy Awards (category April 1979 events in the United States)
Express with two, and The Buddy Holly Story, California Suite, Days of Heaven, Death on the Nile, The Flight of the Gossamer Condor, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs...
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This is a list of Academy Award–winning films. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface...
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Short. It lost to The Flight of the Gossamer Condor. "NY Times: The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012...
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Picture winner. Films with the most awards: Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) each earned 11 Academy...
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Boyd Estus (category Year of birth missing (living people))
of photography and producer/director in the motion picture industry whose credits include the Academy Award-winning The Flight of the Gossamer Condor...
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Gerhardt Cycleplane (category History of Dayton, Ohio)
assembled by the staff of the Flight Test Section at McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio. It was flown in 1923. SUMPAC Gossamer Albatross Gossamer Condor Pitts Sky...
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speed. The MacCready Gossamer Condor is a human-powered aircraft capable of flight as slow as 8 miles per hour (13 km/h). Its successor, the MacCready...
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Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film (category Lists of documentary films)
practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year. Copies of every winning...
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Bryan Allen (hang glider) (category College of the Sequoias alumni)
provided the human power for) the two aircraft that won the first two Kremer prizes for human-powered flight: the Gossamer Condor (1977; the first human-powered...
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Control reversal (section Gossamer Condor)
would cancel out the effect of the control surfaces under some circumstances. Control reversal also affected the Gossamer Condor, the Kremer Prize-winning...
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The Gossamer Penguin was a solar-powered experimental aircraft created by Paul MacCready's AeroVironment. MacCready, whose Gossamer Condor in 1977 won...
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The Coppolas have the most nominated (9) and winning (7) members. The Hustons were the first three generation family of winners. The others are the Coppolas...
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large amount of acting and narration work, both credited and uncredited. He provided narration in The Flight of the Gossamer Condor and the television documentary...
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first flight of a functional walkalong glider appears briefly in the Academy Award winning documentary The Flight of the Gossamer Condor. A walkalong...
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Ben Shedd (category Year of birth missing (living people))
the second season of Nova. Shedd and Jacqueline Phillips Shedd, producers of The Flight of the Gossamer Condor film, received the 1978 Academy Award...
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Human-powered aircraft (redirect from Human Powered Flight)
opened the competition to all nationalities; previously it was restricted to British entries only. On 23 August 1977, the Gossamer Condor 2 flew the first...
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AeroVironment (category Aircraft manufacturers of the United States)
airplane. The Gossamer Condor is on display at the US National Air and Space Museum (NASM), since it won the first Kremer Prize in 1977. Gossamer Albatross...
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interest. The first Kremer prize of £50,000 was won on 23 August 1977 by Dr. Paul MacCready when his Gossamer Condor, piloted by Bryan Allen, was the first...
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Robeson: Portraits of the Artist|The Criterion Collection Amazon.com: Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist (Body and Soul / Borderline / The Emperor Jones...
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non-gender-specific categories. It's fully current as of the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards, with the ceremony taking place on March 10, 2024. At least...
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Performance Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era HMPAC Puffin Malliga 1 MacCready Gossamer Albatross MacCready Gossamer Condor Goodhart Newbury...
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Zinno Olympian ZB-1 (section Flight tests)
5 kg/m2) Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Kohm Lady Godiva MacCready Gossamer Albatross MacCready Gossamer Condor MIT Chrysalis MIT...
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[11] – Snowbird [12] – Coolthrust Japan [13] – Snowbird [14] [15] – Gossamer Condor [16] – Mozi video [17] – Mozi drawings, photos etc. [18] – Mozi article...
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Aircraft (redirect from Heavier than air flight)
engines of other types, or using other fuels. A very few have been powered, for short flights, by human muscle energy (e.g.: Gossamer Condor). The avionics...
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California Historical Landmarks in Kern County (category History of the Mojave Desert region)
Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table...
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Shafter Airport (category Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in California)
Air Museum. Archived from the original on July 25, 2008. Retrieved April 20, 2008. "CHL No. 923 Flight of the Gossamer Condor - Kern". California Historic...
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