Two pioneers in aviation made their home in or near New Haven: Igor Sikorsky, whose Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford is a major builder of helicopters, and Paul MacCready, who built a human-powered ...

Paul MacCready, pioneering designer of the first fully capable human-powered flying machine, has died, a spokesman said Wednesday. He was 81. MacCready was recently diagnosed with a serious ailment ...

In the 1970s, when most aeronautics designers were interested in bigger and more powerful planes, engineer and all-around mad visionary Paul MacCready was obsessed with man-powered flight. L.A. Times ...

LOS ANGELES – Paul MacCready, the pioneering designer of the first fully capable human-powered flying machine, has died, a spokesman for the company he founded said Wednesday. He was 81. MacCready was ...

Collection includes nine (9) original Beta Cam SP videos documenting interviews with Paul MacCready, the father of human powered flight. MacCready invented the Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross.

EVEN Pasadena aeronautical engineer and Caltech Ph.D Paul MacCready, a visionary if there ever was one, couldn’t have foreseen the heights to which the little company called AeroVironment that he ...

For centuries, human-powered flight eluded mankind. Many thought it was just an impossible dream. But several great inventions have been born from competition. Challenge man to do something ...