NOVA

Icarus' Children

Directed by Ben Shedd
TV-PG
S5 • E11    Mar 29, 1978    55m
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.

Where to Watch NOVA - S5 • E11

  • Tony KahnSelf - Narrator
  • James FitzpatrickSelf - City University, New York
  • Frank IrvingSelf - Lecturer in Aeronautics, Imperial College, London
  • Taras KiceniukSelf - Icarus V
  • Paul B. MacCreadySelf - Designer
  • Tyler MacCreadySelf
  • Derek PiggottSelf - Glider Pilot
  • John PotterSelf - Flight Lieutenant
  • Ben SheddDirector
  • John AngierExecutive Producer
  • Simon Campbell-JonesProducer / Written By
  • Jacqueline PhillipsProducer
  • Andrew HallEditor
  • Robin BatesAssistant Producer
  • Stephen RoseAssistant Producer

 

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