Flight of the Gossamer Condor

[usabbott48g]

Your video is a favorite on Spain

[ilikeyouallot]

gREAT!

[andrew097]

It's amazing how versatile the bicycle is

[andrew097]

Brilliant story. Then they went and flew the Channell

[Alexun74]

stupid MOFOs

[Alexun74]

WTF stupid guy

[iSwaggxsteel]

@Alexun74 Alex i am your garndfather and im here to RAPE YOU ;D

[iSwaggxsteel]

@andrewmair6 lol borskii <(o_o<)

[Alexun74]

stop talking to me u bum

[Alexun74]

true true, stupid white oak

[iSwaggxsteel]

@Alexun74 lol

[iSwaggxsteel]

lol

[iSwaggxsteel]

nerds i had to whatch this for school o_O

[210482fmj]

why are the governments not researchign on human powered pedal flight?

[vladarte]

let's make a deal with this.... to put all togeder money to build one prototype of this....

[tubbyflip]

they should sell these like they sell bikes. that would be awesome!!!

[wallenp]

Its a canard! The same design as the Wrights plane. The horizontal stab in the front ! Wow. what a coincidence....

[MrRobotoToo]

Where can I buy one?

[Aoudhubillahi]

Yahoo just posted an article giving credit to "Human-powered flight stays airborne

History is made after a grad student at the University of Toronto sustains altitude and airspeed for 19.3 seconds while traveling about 145 yards at an average speed of 16 mph.

September 24, 2010|By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times"...needless to say this article is grossly erroneous, per the above video data on the Gossamer Condor and Albatross flightsof the late 1970s.

[sirpc2]

Niice :D that was all I needed :) Thanks for uploading this, it's so interesting! :)

[razerhead666]

I have always wondered if filling the wings with helium was ever considered.It would of made the plane a lot lighter or even lighter than air.

[transdrole]

Hamster wheel wheeeee

[ZachariasClub]

why arent their more????????

[Grousuba]

Then what happened?

[NeoConSIayer]

Couldn't you just use a balloon to offset your weight? That way you wouldn't have to work so hard to stay in the air all you'd have to do is steer.

[superjezz]

not really. Youd have to peddle just as hard to over come the air resistance of a baloon big enough

[scv405]

@NeoConSIayer

The rules of the Kremer prizes forbid lighter than air components.

[markash1971]

they look too weak for bad weather conditions and too big. maybe they could make them smaller if they had two propellers and a faster gear ratio so you can pedal slow but still get the speed thatsneeded for lift. think a hand glider shape would work. wish i had the time and space to build one

[fozjared]

why on earth hasn't someone produced a kit or even mass produced a human powered plane yet?!!!

[RottenRroses]

I have a human powered shovel.

[Fataris]

haaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaahahaaa­haahahahhh

[illefille]

Leonardo Da Vinci had this dream too of man powered flight, unfortunately he didn't had the knowhow and materials..... But one thing is sure...If you want to create, you need to dare to dream....

[vanessamarie13]

god. this is a retarded pointless video. it's gay. i hate this dumb class.

[Gunther10k]

suck it up or leave

[pcapr0ducti0ns]

this video is boring and retarded and i never want to see it again stupid god damn pltw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GameStar1300]

thanks for putting this on here

I had to do it for PLTW too

[Helicopterpilot16]

I think I really like that control on the plane!

[edwardreid]

I knew Mr Mc Cready when he was president of the I.H.P.V.A in the mid 80s to the mid 90s. A great man with a wonderful imagination. I was a builder and racer of My own creations at that time. Although My later vehicles never were as good, Simple Cycle 1 was held up by him (minus the bodyshell), as, "a perfect example of doing more with less!", during the 1990 I.H.P.S.C. in Portland OR.. I came in 5th place in the practical vehicle compition, that year.

William :)

[JonnyTTV]

can someone upload the full documentary? pleeese

[erlover100]

Thankz for the video! I have to watch it for PLTW:(

[amcurtis]

project lead the way?

I have that class. small world.

[erlover100]

Yup. What grade are you in? I'm in 9th, I hated the class at first. NOW I kinda like it!

[amcurtis]

I'm in 10th grade; I love the class.

[erlover100]

Do you want to an engineer? Not me, a CRNA.

[amcurtis]

I want to work with computers, maybe a computer engineer. I would also like to work on a ship. Ship engineers get to work all around the world.

[erlover100]

That's really cool! I want to work in the UK at children's hospital. Where do you want to work? A certain country or here?

[inuyashalover101kica]

Thanks for the vid I needed it for my engineering class!^^

[lucio53]

thanks Bruno ! Great video.

[skatetolive101]

stop pedaling!! PULL LEFT!! AAAAHHHH!!!

[CapsRock21]

lulz im in this video at 2:16 lulz haha im kool i made this plane haha i like it win.

[EdwardCarlos756]

lol im doing a TED project too lol i wonder who put this vid up .... wat a loser lol =]

[raswelsta]

lol, im doing a project for my engineering class right now about the condor.... =P

[xannetteo8x]

lol. same here.[:

[martythelewis]

Paul MacCready talks about this process inan awesome TED talk... if you don't know what TED talks are, you should... google it :)

[boy15000]

hi i think think paul mecreadys agreat man and i hope it flies just like the plane dided i will post a video on my progress of my home built plane.

[boy15000]

air .x. cool iam buidling a plane to but its won of the greatest back yard builds.

[TheOneAndOnlyFink]

It may have been impractical, but it would have been a great recreational vehicle.

[mytube8488]

70LBS WOW!

[ChiefDarren]

1:31 "stop pedaling...pull left!!!...Ahhhhh!!!"

I almost threw up that was so funny

[scv405]

@ChiefDarren

Pretty sure he said 'full left'. How was that funny? They were trying to minimise damage to the airframe.

[ChiefDarren]

wow you're really the pedaling aircraft's gunslinger aren't you? it was funny because of how faggy his voice sounded. that's why it was funny.

[scv405]

@ChiefDarren

Sounded pretty hetero to me, but I guess it takes one to know one...

[twonaqtr]

@ChiefDarren When this was shown on PBS in 78 or so, the audio was uncensored and the pilot was cursing in between screams.

[georgehwbush]

This is excellent, thanks for sharing!

[polkijm]

What the left out in the video was that Paul MacCready needed the prize money because he was the guarantor for a friend's loan, and his friend's business flopped :P

[scv405]

@polkijm

He would have done it either way. By the time he got done and cashed the check he'd spent almost the entire prize money amount on the Condor project anyway.

[Roncace]

could you find the full version of this video and upload it?

[BrunoTheQuestionable]

If I remember right, the full length version of the film is not available online :(

[Roncace]

sorry, I didn't know that.

[sciencetoymaker]

@Roncace A remastered DVD is now available. Do a search for shedd productions and flight gossamer condor. I just bought and watched it--amazing! Some things are worth paying for. There is also an excellent Nova (PBS) episode called "The Light Stuff" about an MIT team recreating the mythological Greek flight of Daedalus, also available (VHS). More people ought to know about these.