More with Less: Paul MacCready and the Dream of Efficient Flight Book

More with Less: Paul MacCready and the Dream of Efficient Flight, More with Less tells the story of Paul MacCready and his dream of low-powered, efficient flight. This mild-mannered but inspired tinkerer, visionary and engineer has had his gaze trained on the heavens since he was a boy making elaborate model planes. As , More with Less: Paul MacCready and the Dream of Efficient Flight

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More with Less: Paul MacCready and the Dream of Efficient Flight
Written by author Paul Ciotti
Published by Encounter Books, September 2002
More with Less tells the story of Paul MacCready and his dream of low-powered, efficient flight. This mild-mannered but inspired tinkerer, visionary and engineer has had his gaze trained on the heavens since he was a boy making elaborate model planes. As
In the 1970s a group of California visionaries developed an interest in lightweight, low-powered machines. Scientist and engineer, Paul MacCready, pulled them together to build a plane capable of winning a long-standing prize for human powered flight. The

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1 From Rodent-Powered Aircraft to Stratospheric Satellites 1
2 The Moral Case for Efficiency 5
3 Alpha Males and the Twilight Club 10
4 The Case against Elegant Engineering 15
5 From King Bladud to the Wright Bothers 17
6 Building Self-Confidence 25
7 The Contest at St. Yan 33
8 Midlife Crisis 38
9 Man's Innate Desire to Fly 44
10 Hang-Gliding in Southern California 47
11 The Earth-Flip Hypothesis 53
12 The Otto Lilienthal Meet 61
13 Taras Kiceniuk and Icarus Ground Effect I 67
14 How Henry Kremer Changed Paul MacCready's Life 70
15 Lambie Luck 73
16 A Human Test Stand 82
17 Tales of the Mojave 86
18 The Shafter Connection 89
19 Reinventing the Wright Brothers 92
20 A Turn for the Better 95
21 The Case for Apparent Altruism 102
22 The Channel Crossing 106
23 Vikings versus the Emerald Isle 109
24 Why the British Didn't Win 118
25 Soft Energy and Lissaman's Broken Heart 120
26 How the Oil Crisis Changed the Country 122
27 Bob Boucher and the Eternal Plane 126
28 From Pointoise to "a Right Proper Piss-up" 135
29 "A Big Damn Bird Came Out of the Sky" 148
30 Biking Through the Gene Pool 160
31 Solar Deluge on the Bitumen 171
32 Electric Cars and Mental Blocks 179
33 Day of the Stratospheric Satellite 184
34 The Engineer, the Hunter and the Bear 190
35 Tao of the Carbon Dragon 195
36 Saving the World 10 Percent at a Time 202
37 Doctoral Thesis Immortality 210
38 Exploding Biomimicry 214
39 Why Blind People Don't Sky Dive 216
40 The Johnny Appleseed of Ornithopters 225
Acknowledgments 229
Notes 231
Index 252

Title: More with Less: Paul MacCready and the Dream of Efficient Flight

Item Number: 9781893554504

Publication Date: September 2002

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Weight: 0.200 kg (0.44 lbs)

Width: 6.400 cm (2.52 inches)

Heigh : 9.100 cm (3.58 inches)

Depth: 1.100 cm (0.43 inches)

Date Added: August 25, 2020, Added By: Ross

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This book gives some flavor of the Wrights' personalities and some detail on the technical achievements. I am somewhat technical-minded, and, it's enough for me. After a century has passed, a definitive study of their personalities may not be possible. After a century of flight, the finer points of aeronautical engineering and the experience of flying are covered well elsewhere. The best, most important contribution of this book may be the discussion of other personalities and their achievements (or lack of) in seeking flight, as they impacted the Wrights' lives and efforts. The author is uniquely qualified to do this, and he has done it well.

That may sound lukewarm, but I love the book, pick it up again & again for a lift. It's nostalgia, I suppose. What better technical achievement has man made, than to fly. And, what an amazing story; two machinists on a shoestring budget succeeded where well-financed men of high station failed again and again. And, kept it a virtual secret for several years until revealing it to an astonished world.

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	List of Illustrations
1	From Rodent-Powered Aircraft to Stratospheric Satellites	1
2	The Moral Case for Efficiency	5
3	Alpha Males and the Twilight Club	10
4	The Case against Elegant Engineering	15
5	From King Bladud to the Wright Bothers	17
6	Building Self-Confidence	25
7	The Contest at St. Yan	33
8	Midlife Crisis	38
9	Man's Innate Desire to Fly	44
10	Hang-Gliding in Southern California	47
11	The Earth-Flip Hypothesis	53
12	The Otto Lilienthal Meet	61
13	Taras Kiceniuk and Icarus Ground Effect I	67
14	How Henry Kremer Changed Paul MacCready's Life	70
15	Lambie Luck	73
16	A Human Test Stand	82
17	Tales of the Mojave	86
18	The Shafter Connection	89
19	Reinventing the Wright Brothers	92
20	A Turn for the Better	95
21	The Case for Apparent Altruism	102
22	The Channel Crossing	106
23	Vikings versus the Emerald Isle	109
24	Why the British Didn't Win	118
25	Soft Energy and Lissaman's Broken Heart	120
26	How the Oil Crisis Changed the Country	122
27	Bob Boucher and the Eternal Plane	126
28	From Pointoise to "a Right Proper Piss-up"	135
29	"A Big Damn Bird Came Out of the Sky"	148
30	Biking Through the Gene Pool	160
31	Solar Deluge on the Bitumen	171
32	Electric Cars and Mental Blocks	179
33	Day of the Stratospheric Satellite	184
34	The Engineer, the Hunter and the Bear	190
35	Tao of the Carbon Dragon	195
36	Saving the World 10 Percent at a Time	202
37	Doctoral Thesis Immortality	210
38	Exploding Biomimicry	214
39	Why Blind People Don't Sky Dive	216
40	The Johnny Appleseed of Ornithopters	225
	Acknowledgments	229
	Notes	231
	Index	252