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Paul Beattie MacCready
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Watch the “Gossamer Albatross” the first human-powered plane crossing the English Channel in 1979
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NASA's Reduced Gravity Program provides the unique weightless or zero-G environment of space flight for testing and training of human and hardware reactions. NASA used the turbojet KC-135A to run these parabolic flights from 1963 to 2004.
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How Did Helen Keller Fly a Plane?
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History of Technology Timeline
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What Is Known (and Not Known) About Contrails
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An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.
11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
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6 Lost Civilizations
Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
Why Is Ireland Two Countries?
The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)
New Seven Wonders of the World
Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
12 Greek Gods and Goddesses
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who formulated the Four Freedoms.
7 Alphabet Soup Agencies that Stuck Around
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Just How Many Oceans Are There?

Paul Beattie MacCready: Facts & Related Content

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Facts

Born September 29, 1925 • New Haven • Connecticut
Died August 28, 2007 (aged 81) • Pasadena • California

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Watch the “Gossamer Albatross” the first human-powered plane crossing the English Channel in 1979
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Orville Wright
American aviator
Wilbur Wright
American aviator
Louis Blériot standing before his Type XI monoplane, which he flew across the English Channel on July 25, 1909.
Louis Blériot
French aviator
Alberto Santos-Dumont, 1931.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Brazilian aviator
Farman, Henri
Henri Farman
French pioneer aviator and airplane manufacturer
Louis-Charles Bréguet
French aircraft builder
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator
Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart
American aviator
Louise McPhetridge Thaden
American aviator
Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran
American pilot
Telkes, Mária
Mária Telkes
American physical chemist and biophysicist
Glenn Hammond Curtiss.
Glenn Hammond Curtiss
American engineer
Charles Lanier Lawrance
American aeronautical engineer
Alexander M. Lippisch
German-American aerodynamicist
Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
French aviator
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
French aviator
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian scientist
Auguste Piccard, 1961
Auguste Piccard
Swiss-Belgian physicist

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NASA's Reduced Gravity Program provides the unique weightless or zero-G environment of space flight for testing and training of human and hardware reactions. NASA used the turbojet KC-135A to run these parabolic flights from 1963 to 2004.
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