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More with Less - Paul
MacCready and the Dream of Efficient Flight
Author: Paul Ciotti
Paperback, 259 pages, dozens of black and white photographs and illustrations
Copyright: 2002
Dimensions: 6.30 x 9.29 x 1.0 inches (160 x 236 x 25 mm)
In the 1970s a group of California visionaries developed an interest
in lightweight, low-powered machines. Scientist and engineer, Paul
MacCready, pulled them together to build a plane capable of winning a
long-standing prize for human powered flight. Their other successes
included a man-powered plane, a solar powered plane, a solar-powered
car, an 18-foot flapping wing flying replica of a pterodactyl for a
Smithsonian-sponsored IMAX film, and a high-altitude unmanned solar
airplane that can perform the same functions as orbiting satellites.
Paul Ciotti tells the story of the individuals who made up this group,
but ultimately More with Less is about Paul MacCready himself, an
American dreamer whose tough minded inventiveness altered our scientific
skyline. Paul also won several US National and World soaring
competitions and is the inventor of the MacCready Speed-to-Fly theory
and MacCready Ring. |
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