The Flight of the Gossamer Condor (1978)

Directed by

Ben Shedd

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

27 min

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A team of engineers and pilots tries to build a plane that can fly using only human power. The film follows their careful testing and gradual progress.

breezyinventiveinspirationalunderstatedearnestlightmethodicalquietly triumphant

What happens

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor is a 1978 American short documentary film directed by Ben Shedd, about the development of the Gossamer Condor, the first human-powered aircraft, by a team led by Paul MacCready. The Academy Film Archive preserved The Flight of the Gossamer Condor in 2007. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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