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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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    and world soaring champion. Gossamer Albatross was his second human-powered aircraft, the first being the Gossamer Condor, which had won the first Kremer...
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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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  • 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 human-powered...
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  • surfaces under some circumstances. Control reversal also affected the Gossamer Condor, the Kremer Prize-winning human-powered airplane. When a wing warping...
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    the vehicles the company built are: Gossamer Condor – The first successful human-powered airplane. The Gossamer Condor is on display at the US National Air...
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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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  • 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 Gossamer Albatross...
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  • flight: the Gossamer Condor (1977; the first human-powered aircraft that met the specified criteria of the first Kremer prize) and Gossamer Albatross (1979;...
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  • California Suite, Days of Heaven, Death on the Nile, The Flight of the Gossamer Condor, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Heaven Can Wait, Scared Straight!, Special...
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    MacCready, noted for such pioneering aircraft as the human-powered Gossamer Condor and a robotic flying pterodactyl replica. The Pointer was developed...
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  • Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. It lost to The Flight of the Gossamer Condor. "NY Times: The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey". Movies &...
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    Inflatable rescue aircraft technology demonstrator Gossamer Albatross 1979 – Human-powered flight Gossamer Condor 1977 – Human-powered flight modified Grumman...
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  • 1942 Project 0 MacCready Gossamer Condor USA Propeller Experimental 1977 Operational 1 Human-powered aircraft. MacCready Gossamer Albatross USA Propeller...
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  • Holly Story 1978 1 3 Death on the Nile 1978 1 1 The Flight of the Gossamer Condor 1978 1 1 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez vos mouchoirs) 1978 1...
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    location as well. The first truly successful human powered airplane, the Gossamer Condor, piloted by Bryan Allen won the Kremer prize on August 23, 1977, at...
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    it was restricted to British entries only. On 23 August 1977, the Gossamer Condor 2 flew the first figure-eight, a distance of 2.172 km winning the first...
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    by slaves captured by pirates in more recent times. The MacCready Gossamer Condor was the first human-powered aircraft capable of controlled and sustained...
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  • Amputee David Lynch 1976 Number One Dyan Cannon 1978 The Flight of the Gossamer Condor Ben Shedd 1987 Liebestod Franc Roddam Segment of Aria 1988 Speed Demon...
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    have been powered, for short flights, by human muscle energy (e.g.: Gossamer Condor). The avionics comprise any electronic aircraft flight control systems...
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  • The Shetland Experience Douglas Gordon 1978 (51st) The Flight of the Gossamer Condor Jacqueline Phillips Shedd and Ben Shedd The Divided Trail: A Native...
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  • for Something Completely Different and Airplane!. SUMPAC Gossamer Albatross Gossamer Condor Pitts Sky Car Related lists List of Human-powered aircraft...
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  • Kremer prize for man-powered aircraft, won in 1977 by the MacCready Gossamer Condor. L Prize is a US Department of Energy competition to increase efficiency...
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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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  • credited and uncredited. He provided narration in The Flight of the Gossamer Condor and the television documentary Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam...
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  • founder of Lotus Development; Paul MacCready, creator of the Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross; and Eric Allin Cornell, a Nobel laureate in physics...
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    briefly in the Academy Award winning documentary The Flight of the Gossamer Condor. A walkalong glider must fly at or below walking speed. Light weight...
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  • of £50,000 was won on 23 August 1977 by Dr. Paul MacCready when his Gossamer Condor, piloted by Bryan Allen, was the first human-powered aircraft to fly...
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  • University of Maryland Solar Gamera Gossamer Condor – Human powered airplane winner of the Kremer prize Gossamer Albatross – Human powered airplane winner...
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    look at the challenge, and came up with an unorthodox aircraft, the "Gossamer Condor", to win the Kremer Prize on 23 August 1977. In 1980, Dupont Corporation...
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