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The Secret of Flight
Year: 1959
Seasons: 1
Type: TV Series
Genre: 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.
Episodes
EP 1
EP 1
Preview
EP 2
EP 2
The Laws of Fluid Motion
EP 3
EP 3
The History of Early Flight
EP 4
EP 4
The Discovery of Dynamic Lift
EP 5
EP 5
Stability and Control
EP 6
EP 6
Propulsion
EP 7
EP 7
The Problem of Drag
EP 8
EP 8
The Induced Drag
EP 9
EP 9
Different Aircraft Systems
EP 10
EP 10
Lift Theory and High Lift Devices
EP 11
EP 11
The Story of the Vortex
EP 12
EP 12
Flight of Nature
EP 13
EP 13
Modern Problems of Flight
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