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Flight [electronic resource] / directed by Mimi Soeteman, Lee Thean-Jeje, and Karan Low

Published
Melbourne, Victoria : Looking Glass International, 2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (25 min).
Additional Creators
Low, Karan, Smith, Grub, Soeteman, Mimi, Soeteman, Mimi, and Thean-Jeje, Lee
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This edition in English.
Summary
As early as the 1500s, we were dreaming of flight - that's when Leonardo da Vinci tried to build his flying machine. Unfortunately, his "Ornithopter" didn't work, and indeed, the airplanes of today do not have flapping wings! This program charts the history of manned flight - from the kite made by the now-famous Wright brothers, which became the forerunner of the flying machine, to today's commercial planes that can top 800 kmph. What is it that makes our current planes fly 12 times faster? Advances in aviation led to the Airbus A380, the largest passenger plane in the world, as well as to the scramjet built by NASA. So what will be the next quirky discovery for flight?
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Duration
["00:25:22"]
Note
Title from resource description page (viewed July 1, 2014).
Other Forms
Originiall released as DVD.
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