Flying Free
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Alan Alda speaks with Paul MacCready, who set the world of aeronautical engineering on its head in the mid-1970s when he designed and built the first successful human-powered airplane. Now 75-years-old, MacCready continues to build flying machines. Alda and MacCready fly a variety of planes, ranging
Cast & Crew
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John Angier
Director
Paul Maccready
Alan Alda
Jeremy Angier
Animator
Jeremy Angier
Graphics
John Angier
Producer
Film Details
Also Known As
Scientific American Frontiers (04/10/01)
Genre
Documentary
Release Date
2001
Technical Specs
Duration
60m
Synopsis
Alan Alda speaks with Paul MacCready, who set the world of aeronautical engineering on its head in the mid-1970s when he designed and built the first successful human-powered airplane. Now 75-years-old, MacCready continues to build flying machines. Alda and MacCready fly a variety of planes, ranging from a flying wing almost as long as a football field, to a tiny and almost undetectable spyplane. Much like nature, MacCready's philosophy is to fly with the minimum input of energy, but with the maximum performance. The program also examines how nature itself first solved the problem of flight, when insects evolved wings more than 300 million years ago.
Directors
John Angier
Director
Andrew Liebman
Director
Graham Chedd
Director
David Huntley
Director
Jill Singer
Director
Crew
Jeremy Angier
Animator
Jeremy Angier
Graphics
John Angier
Producer
John Angier
Executive Producer
John Angier
Writer
David Berenson
Editor
Michael Boyle
Sound
Graham Chedd
Producer
Graham Chedd
Writer
Graham Chedd
Executive Producer
Jeannie Choi
Associate Producer
Arda Collins
Associate Producer
Philip Corona
Production Manager
Philip Corona
Photography
Peter Frumkin
Sound
G John Garrett
Sound
Peter Hoving
Photography
David Huntley
Writer
David Huntley
Editor
David Huntley
Photography
David Huntley
Producer
Steve Izzi
Sound Mixer
Warren Jones
Post-Production Assistant
Bill Kenney
On-Line Editor
Andrew Liebman
Producer
Andrew Liebman
Writer
Dan Lyons
Associate Producer
Susan Matthews
Other
Mark Mclaughlin
Sound
Alan Morin
Animator
Alan Morin
Graphics
Sean Moyer
Animator
John Osborne
Sound
Peter Reniers
Photography
Randy Roos
Music
Jed Schwartz
Animator
Steve Sherrick
Post-Production Supervisor
Jill Singer
Writer
Jill Singer
Editor
Jill Singer
Producer
Roger Stevenson
Sound
Film Details
Also Known As
Scientific American Frontiers (04/10/01)
Genre
Documentary
Release Date
2001
Technical Specs
Duration
60m
