Madcaps and oddballs.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

BBC Worldwide Ltd.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Century of flight ;v25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aeronautics--History.

Aeronautics.

Airplanes--History.

Airplanes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (53 mins.).

Place of Publication:

[London] : British Broadcasting Corporation Worldwide ; [Pyrmont, N.S.W.] : Roadshow Entertainment [distributor], c2009.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

Japanese manpowered flight competition. Manpowered flight - the story from Icarus and Daedalus to Kanellopolou's 1988 distance record. Footage includes many bizarre attempts down through the decades, with a fair degree of colour and humour. Diagrams explain the problems of manpowered flight. It will never fly - Zany home-made flying machines 1900-39. Humour is the keynote. Wartime Oddballs - German piggyback aircraft and other projects, the flying jeep, and many more. White Elephants - expensive projects that hardly got off the ground. These will include Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose, the Northrop Flying Wing, and the British TSR project. The one that worked - Voyager's 1986 non-stop circumnavigation.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 17, 2012).

"The epic story of human triumph in the sky"--Original container.

Previously published as DVD.

OCLC:

689524555