NOVA - Season 5 Episode 11
NOVA - Season 5 Episode 11 - Documentary TV Shows 55:14. story 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.
- 1. In The Event of Catastrophe1978-01-04
- 2. The Green Machine1978-01-11
- 3. Blueprints in the Bloodstream1978-01-18
- 4. One Small Step1978-01-25
- 5. The Final Frontier1978-02-01
- 7. Trial of Denton Cooley1978-02-22
- 8. The Great Wine Revolution1978-03-01
- 9. The Case of the Ancient Astronauts1978-03-08
- 10. The Mind Machines1978-03-22
- 11. Icarus' Children1978-03-29
- 12. Still Waters1978-04-12
- 13. Battle for the Acropolis1978-04-19
- 15. Laser : Light of the 21st Century1978-05-10
- 16. Insect Alternative1978-05-24
- 17. The Desert's Edge1978-05-31
- 18. The Tsetse Trap1978-06-07
- 19. Memories From Eden1978-06-14
- 20. A Whisper from Space1978-06-21
- 21. Alaska: The Closing Frontier1978-06-28
