NOVA

52 Season
994 Episode

NOVA - Season 5 Episode 11 Icarus' Children


(118 votes, average: 6.86/ 10)

55 minutes 2024 HD

  • Share

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.

Season