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Icarus' Children

In the summer of 1977 Paul MacCready, a California scientist and businessman, won the coveted Kremer Prize. His achievement was to design and build an airplane which completed, unaided, a one-mile figure-eight course entirely under the power provided by the pilot himself. This is the story of those many failures and MacCready's success.

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Episode 1: In The Event of Catastrophe

Episode 2: The Green Machine

Episode 3: Blueprints in the Bloodstream

Episode 4: One Small Step

Episode 5: The Final Frontier

Episode 6: BaMiki BaNdula: Children of the Forest

Episode 7: Trial of Denton Cooley

Episode 8: The Great Wine Revolution

Episode 9: The Case of the Ancient Astronauts