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	Gossamer Albatross
		The "Gossamer Condor" was designed by Dr. Paul MacCready and Dr. Peter Lissamen and was made of thin aluminum tubes, mylar plastic, and stainless steel wire.
		The Gossamer Albatross II was involved in slow-speed flight tests at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California in the spring of 1980.
		The Gossamer Condor won the Kremer prize for the first controlled human-powered airplane flight in 1977.
	www.byrongliding.com /gossamer_albatross.htm (381 words)

	Gossamer Condor -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Gossamer Condor was a (additional info and facts about human-powered aircraft) human-powered aircraft built by (additional info and facts about Dr Paul B MacCready) Dr Paul B MacCready.
		The Gossamer Condor was created by MacCready and Dr. Peter B. Lissaman, both of (additional info and facts about Pasadena, California) Pasadena, California, out of an idea that MacCready had first conceived in 1976.
		The (additional info and facts about Gossamer Albatross) Gossamer Albatross, which crossed the (An arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain) English Channel, was a later design, building on the success of the Condor.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/go/gossamer_condor.htm (150 words)

	Gossamer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gossamer, a character in the Looney Tunes cartoons
		The Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross, both human-powered aircraft
		Gossamer, Gothic rock band, active from 1995 to 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gossamer (103 words)

	MacCready Condor
		The Gossamer Condor traveled a total of 1.35 miles from takeoff to landing.
		One advantage of the Gossamer Condor over previous manpowered aircraft was the facility with which it could be modified or repaired.
		n January 1978 the Gossamer Condor was donated to the National Air and Space Museum.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/maccread_condor.htm (383 words)

	Gossamer Albatross (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Gossamer Albatross was constructed using plastic over a carbon fibre frame, with the structure of the wings provided with expanded polystyrene ribs.
		The first was the Gossamer Condor which won the first Kremer prize on August 23, 1977 by completing a specified figure-eight course.
		A follow-up to the Albatross was the solar-powered Gossamer Penguin in 1980.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/Gossamer-Albatross.htm (444 words)

	Gliding Magazine \| Features (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Gossamer Albatross and its pilot, Bryan Allen, are best known for completing the first human powered flight across the English Channel on June 12, 1979.
		The Gossamer Condor is hanging in the National Air and Space Museum and the Gossamer Albatross is on display in the new Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport.
		Gossamer Albatross on the lake bed on April 4, 1979.
	www.glidingmagazine.com /FeatureArticle.asp?id=396 (1662 words)

	YouTube - Flight of the Gossamer Condor
		The debut flight of Gossamer Condor rewrote the...
		The debut flight of Gossamer Condor rewrote the history of aviation and captured the world's attention.
		Flight of the Gossamer Condor, Ben Shedd's 1978 documentary of the construction and flight of the plane, won an Academy Award for best documentary, short subject.
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=sp7yv67B5Sc (314 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - Dreams of Flight - Aviation History - The Last Aviation Records
		The Gossamer Condor was designed by Dr. Paul MacCready and Dr. Peter Lissaman of California for an attempt at sustained human-powered flight -- something that had never been achieved before in history.
		The Gossamer Condor was built of thin aluminum tubes covered with mylar plastic.
		Both the Condor and the Albatross are part of the Museum's collection.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /air/nasm-17.htm (579 words)

	Lemelson Center Invention Features: Paul MacCready
		And far from the effortless propulsion of the floating ornithopter, the Condor had a bicyclist enclosed in a plastic pod hanging from the contraption furiously pedaling to keep the machine aloft--only ten feet from the ground and moving at a speed of 10 miles per hour, but still flying.
		The success of the flight of the Gossamer Condor earned the inventor the historical appellation of “the father of human-powered flight” and allowed him to claim the first of his four prestigious Kremer Prizes, this one for controlled, sustained human-powered flight; a prize that had gone unclaimed for over eighteen years.
		Sharing footage from his work on the Gossamer Condor, MacCready provided a fascinating account of the atmosphere in which his early flying machines were created.
	invention.smithsonian.org /centerpieces/ilives/maccready/maccready.html (1394 words)

	Inventing Modern America: Perseverance - Paul MacCready
		The debut flight of Gossamer Condor rewrote the history of aviation and captured the world's attention.
		Flight of the Gossamer Condor, Ben Shedd's 1978 documentary of the construction and flight of the plane, won an Academy Award for best documentary, short subject.
		Paul MacCready wrote and produced this video, which demonstrates the advantages of solar energy and discusses the imperative to find less energy-intensive ways to live and work.
	web.mit.edu /invent/www/ima/maccready_video.html (82 words)

	AV Press Release -New Gossamer Ceiling Fan Takes Flight (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Parker thought it likely that the propeller on the famous human-powered planes--the Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross developed by AeroVironment of Monrovia, California--would be similar to that required for a better ceiling fan.
		The Gossamer Wind blades are not only twisted instead of flat, but the twist goes from 26° at the center to 5° at blade tip.
		The Gossamer Wind ceiling fans use a conventional fan motor, leaving motor efficiency an area still to be tapped.
	www.aerovironment.com /news/news-archive/fan.html (962 words)

	Human Powered Flight, Alaska Science Forum (Site not responding. Last check: )
		MacCready's original manpowered aircraft, the Gossamer Condor, has done better than the Wright's first successful ship "Flyer." Both now reside in the Smithsonian, but the "Flyer" was irreparably damaged after flying only a total of 98 seconds.
		By comparison, the Gossamer Condor has been flown by about 25 people, one of them being a 60-year-old woman.
		Built only two years later, the Gossamer Albatross is reported to be much easier than the Condor to fly.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF2/299.html (337 words)

	PV: EV&RE(MacCready flying AeroVironment as high as his Solar EVs) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dubbed the Gossamer Condor, the flying machine now sits alongside the Wright brothers' Flyer and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
		Two years later, the Gossamer Albatross, a design offspring of the Condor, was pedaled 22 1/4 miles across the English Channel, cementing MacCready's place in aviation history.
		To keep the Condor's weight down, MacCready insisted on "no frills, no safety margins." Indeed, when a couple of pieces fell off the Condor during a test run and the plane didn't crash, MacCready decided to scratch the parts from the design.
	listserv.repp.org /pipermail/pvusers/1999-October/000913.html (930 words)

Article 219- Thank Goodness I Owed $100,000</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> is hanging next to the Wright brothers' 1903 Flyer and Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis at the National Air and Space Museum (one of five pioneering vehicles by AeroVironment acquired by the Smithsonian). </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> We built the <b>Gossamer</b> Albatross, a next-step clone of the <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b>, using carbon fiber tubes instead of aluminum, many more ribs to improve the accuracy of wing shape, and greater structural integrity to provide safety for a much more demanding task. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> On the lecture circuit after the <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> program, the most-asked question was why we had won the <a href="/topics/Kremer-prize" title="Kremer prize" class=fl>Kremer prize</a> while other teams with far more resources and experience had for years been doing excellent pioneering but had not come close to winning.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.winstonbrill.com /bril001/html/article_index/articles/201-250/article219_body.html</font> (1399 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://tt.research.ucf.edu/Startup_Companies">UCF Research & Commercialization: Tech Transfer</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Note the reduced energy loss of the <b>Gossamer</b> airfoil due to greatly decreased flow turbulence and lack of flow separation. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The Florida Solar Energy Center in Cocoa and the fan's developer, Danny Parker, a senior researcher there, are sharing in royalties earned since the fans first arrived at Home Depot in March 2001. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Gossamer</b> Wind fans come in three models, two for homes (Callaway and Windward) and one for industrial or commercial use.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>tt.research.ucf.edu /Startup_Companies</font> (465 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://members.aol.com/sheddprods/GossamerCondorVideo.html">THE FLIGHT OF THE GOSSAMER CONDOR DVD</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The historic flight of the <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> was featured as one of the Millennium Moments in the National Geographic® magazine February 1998. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> <a href="/topics/List-of-aircraft" title="List of aircraft" class=fl>aircraft</a> is on display in the Smithsonian Institution'sNational Air and Space Museum where it hangs in an honored place beside the Wright Brothers' first airplane and the Apollo 11 moon capsule. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> THE FLIGHT OF THE <b>GOSSAMER</b> <b>CONDOR</b> film had it's premiere showing at the Smithsonian on the first anniversary of the <a href="/topics/Kremer-prize" title="Kremer prize" class=fl>Kremer Prize</a> winning flight and a short excerpt of this Academy Award® winning documentary is included in the <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> National Air and Space Museum exhibit.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>members.aol.com /sheddprods/GossamerCondorVideo.html</font> (1209 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>PIONEERS OF FLIGHT</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: )</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> he <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> successfully demonstrated sustained, maneuverable human-powered flight on August 23, <a href="/topics/1977" title="1977" class=fl>1977</a>, winning the coveted $95,000 <a href="/topics/Kremer-prize" title="Kremer prize" class=fl>Kremer Prize</a> that British industrialist Henry Kremer established in 1959. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Dr. Paul MacCready and Dr. Peter Lissamen designed the <b>Condor</b>, which is constructed of thin aluminum tubes and mylar plastic, supported with stainless steel wire. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Championship bicyclist and hang-glider enthusiast Bryan Allen flew the <b>Condor</b> for 7 minutes, 2.7 seconds, over a closed course to earn the prize.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.si.edu /harcourt/nasm/gal208/gal208.html</font> (477 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>ccfc-aircraft</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: )</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> was the first human-powered flying machine to make a significant flight. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Paul B. MacCready and Dr. Peter B. Lissaman designed the <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> using light weight materials including balsa wood, cardboard, Mylar plastic and piano wire to construct a plane which had a ninety-six foot wingspan but weighed only seventy pounds. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> On August 23, <a href="/topics/1977" title="1977" class=fl>1977</a>, Pilot Bryan Allen, and avid bicyclist and hang glider, pedaled the <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> to success, traveling a total of 1.35 miles at approximately ten miles per hour.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.chicagocentennialofflight.org /aircraft_gossamercondor.htm</font> (171 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>Model pioneer - 3/1/1999 - Design News - CA86773</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: )</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Today, he is known as the father of human-powered flight for his design of the <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b>. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Condor</b> is now housed in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, adjacent to Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis and the Wright Brothers' 1903 Flyer. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> In 1979, his <b>Gossamer</b> Albatross, with the same 70-lb weight and 96-ft wing span as the <b>Condor</b>, crossed the Channel in turbulent winds in three hours.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.designnews.com /article/CA86773.html</font> (3260 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.aviationtoday.com/cgi/rw/show_mag.cgi?pub=rw&mon=0400&file=04rwexaircraft.htm">Rotor & Wing</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The Sikorsky competition is a challenge in the spirit of the historic <a href="/topics/Kremer-prize" title="Kremer prize" class=fl>Kremer prizes</a>, first offered in 1959 to drive the development of human-powered airplanes. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> This competition eventually led to the highly successful <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> and <b>Gossamer</b> Albatross that flew in the 1970s. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Since the days of the <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> and <b>Gossamer</b> Albatross, a spar-and-rib design has become the standard for fabricating the long, high aspect-ratio wings necessary for human-powered <a href="/topics/List-of-aircraft" title="List of aircraft" class=fl>aircraft</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.aviationtoday.com /cgi/rw/show_mag.cgi?pub=rw&mon=0400&file=04rwexaircraft.htm</font> (3214 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>[No title]</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: )</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Using his skills as a pilot and endurance as a bicyclist, Bryan was not only the pilot but the sole power source for the challenging and exhilarating flights of the <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b>, <b>Gossamer</b> Albatross, and White Dwarf blimp. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> He was the pilot of the <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> pedal-powered airplane which won the original <a href="/topics/Kremer-prize" title="Kremer prize" class=fl>Kremer Prize</a> in <a href="/topics/1977" title="1977" class=fl>1977</a>. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Condor</b> is now on permanent display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. In 1979 he piloted the <b>Gossamer</b> Albatross across the English Channel to win a prize of£100,000 for the group headed by Paul MacCready.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.jplrecclubs.caltech.edu /hiking/textfiles/bryanfly.txt</font> (305 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-05-2002/0001741164&EDATE=">'Discover' Magazine Announces Its 2002 Innovation Awards Honoring Scientists Who Have Revolutionized Their Fields</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> He is the designer of the first human-powered <a href="/topics/List-of-aircraft" title="List of aircraft" class=fl>aircraft</a>, the <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b>, and helped build the first piloted solar-powered plane. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> His <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> sits alongside the Wright Brothers' Flyer and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> He is currently working with NASA on a new generation of lightweight solar-powered planes designed to ascend high into the stratosphere where they could conceivably monitor atmospheric conditions and serve as a communications station for relaying high bandwidth video and teleconferencing signals.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-05-2002/0001741164&EDATE=</font> (777 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://wps.prenhall.com/ca_ph_troyka_handbook_3/0,2985,102330-,00.utf8.html">ca_ph_troyka_handbook_3_vendor|Commas|Commas</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> In <a href="/topics/1977" title="1977" class=fl>1977</a>, the flight of the little airplane the <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b>, did not look very impressive but it was indeed a historic flight. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> was only the first of MacCready’s pedal-powered planes and two years later the plane’s successor, the <b>Gossamer</b> Albatross, crossed the English Channel. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Some people say that MacCready is really the brains, behind these inventions but others feel that he receives undue credit for the work that others on the development teams do.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>wps.prenhall.com /ca_ph_troyka_handbook_3/0,2985,102330-,00.utf8.html</font> (402 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.pbs.org/saf/1109/hotline/hmaccready.htm">PBS - Scientific American Frontiers:Flying Free:Science Hotline:Paul MacCready</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> In <a href="/topics/1977" title="1977" class=fl>1977</a>, his <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> won the $95,000 award offered by British industrialist Henry Kremer for the first sustained, controlled human-powered flight. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> I do not have enough facts about the incident to have an absolutely definitive conclusion, but feel the charges are less than 1 out of 1000 that the cause was other than reckless maneuvering on the part of the fighter pilot. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> was a very impractical plane made for one purpose win the <a href="/topics/Kremer-prize" title="Kremer prize" class=fl>Kremer Prize</a> as quickly and cheaply as possible.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.pbs.org /saf/1109/hotline/hmaccready.htm</font> (2220 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.manufacturingcenter.com/dfx/archives/0899/899trl_2.asp">designfax - Aug 99 - An Ambivalent Luddite at a Technological Feast</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Five AV Vehicles/ models are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian: The <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b>, The <b>Gossamer</b> Albatross, The Solar Challenger, Quetzacoatlus Northropi, and The Sunraycer. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The huge, fragile plane almost defines the word "impractical." However, as a catalyst for unleashing new opportunities and valuable insights, for many others as well as for me, this ugly duckling airplane turned out to be a superbly "practical" swan. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> That initial spark lit by the <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> also set off two decades of pioneering vehicle technology projects for land, air and sea.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.manufacturingcenter.com /dfx/archives/0899/899trl_2.asp</font> (1395 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/ima/maccready_intro.html">Inventing Modern America: Perseverance - Paul MacCready</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> When the <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> made a figure-eight above a California airstrip, it marked the fulfillment of an age-old quest for human-powered flight. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Men have dreamed of flying under their own power for thousands of years. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> "Nobody seemed to be quite as motivated for the new and strange as I was." On August 23, <a href="/topics/1977" title="1977" class=fl>1977</a>, MacCready's plane, the 55-pound <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b>, took flight above a California air strip, powered by a human bicyclist.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>web.mit.edu /invent/www/ima/maccready_intro.html</font> (196 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.ucar.edu/governance/meetings/oct00/maccready.html">Paul MacCready</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> is on permanent display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., adjacent to the Wright Brothers' 1903 airplane and Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Gossamer</b> Albatross, after touring U.S. science museums, was for some years hung in the central atrium of the London Science Museum. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The almost-identical backup vehicle, <b>Gossamer</b> Albatross II, was flown in the Houston Astrodome, and on a NASA research project.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.ucar.edu /governance/meetings/oct00/maccready.html</font> (1823 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1639.htm">No. 1639: Flying to the Edge of Air</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> As early as 1979, the pedal-powered <b>Gossamer</b> <b>Condor</b> made it across the English Channel. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The first successful solar-powered airplane was a direct outgrowth of the <b>Gossamer</b> Albatross with its extremely light construction. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Gossamer</b> Penguin became first in a long series of purely-solar-panel-powered airplanes to carry a human being.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.uh.edu /engines/epi1639.htm</font> (627 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><script language="JavaScript">  </script> <script language="JavaScript">  </script> <script language="JavaScript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <br> <p style="margin-left:30px;font-size:13px;"><b>Try your search on: <a href="http://www.qwika.com/find/Gossamer Condor">Qwika</a> (all wikis)</b></p> <form action=http://www.factbites.com/search.php><table width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><tr><td background="/images/f1.gif"><table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0 background="/images/b.gif"><tr><td><img src="/images/f2.gif" width=38 height=37 alt=" "/></td><td><table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><tr><td><a href="/"><img src="/images/f3.gif" width=95 height=37 alt="Factbites" border=0 /></a><img src="/images/b.gif" width=15 height=1 alt=" "/></td><td valign=bottom><input type=text size=30 name=kp><img src="/images/b.gif" width=2 height=1 alt=" " /><input type=submit value=" Find » " class=b2></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><span class=f> <a href="http://www.factbites.com/about_us.php">About us</a> | <a href="http://www.factbites.com/why_use_us.php">Why use us?</a> | <a href="http://www.factbites.com/reviews.php">Reviews</a> | <a href="http://www.factbites.com/press.php">Press</a> | <a href="http://www.factbites.com/contact_us.php">Contact us</a> <br />Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with <a href=http://www.factbites.com/terms_and_conditions.php>terms</a>.</span></td></tr></table><img src="/images/b.gif" width=450 height=1 alt=" " /></td></tr></table></form> <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-317061-4"; urchinTracker(); </script> </body></html>