The Secret of Flight

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Title: The Secret of Flight
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States of America
Studio: PBS
Cast: Alexander Lippisch
Crew: Sam Becker (Director)
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Keyword: educational, historical documentary

Overview:A lecture series about the basic problems of flight, explained by visual presentation of flow experiments. As the material of the lectures should be understood by every interested listener, no mathematical or other theoretical knowledge is used for explanation. Every problem is demonstrated by a true-life experiment and purely scientific language is avoided. Each of the lectures deals with a basic problem of flight. The experiments are mostly shown as flow picture but at certain points scale models and flying models are used to ensure easier understanding.

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First Air Date: Jan 01, 1959 Last Air date: Jan 01, 1959 Season: 1 Season Episode: 1 Episode Runtime: 29:14 minutes Quality: HD IMDb: 10 / 10 by 0 users Popularity: 0.267 Language: en

Season 1

1. Preview1959-01-01
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2. The Laws of Fluid Motion1959-01-08
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3. The History of Early Flight1959-01-15
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4. The Discovery of Dynamic Lift1959-01-22
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5. Stability and Control1959-01-29
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6. Propulsion1959-02-05
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7. The Problem of Drag1959-02-12
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8. The Induced Drag1959-02-19
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9. Different Aircraft Systems1959-02-26
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10. Lift Theory and High Lift Devices1959-03-05
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11. The Story of the Vortex1959-03-12
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12. Flight of Nature1959-03-19
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13. Modern Problems of Flight1959-03-26
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