Word: condor
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...year later, with the help of his sons and some talented colleagues, the Gossamer Condor was ready. Assembled out of piano wire, aluminum tubes, bicycle parts, Mylar film and a propeller, it was successfully flown around the Kremer course by furiously pedaling Bryan Allen, a racing cyclist and glider pilot. MacCready's place in history was assured...
Emboldened by his success with Condor, MacCready set his sights on a second Kremer Prize, [pound]100,000, to be awarded this time for the first crossing of the English Channel by a man-powered aircraft. Piece of cake. In 1979 a greatly improved version of the Condor, the Gossamer Albatross, successfully flew across 23 miles of Channel water...
...creation, the pterodactyl, which disappeared with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. In 1986 a MacCready-inspired, wing-flapping, computer-brained, radio-controlled and astonishingly realistic pterodactyl was photographed as it swept over Death Valley, Calif., for the Smithsonian Institution's IMAX film On the Wing. Today his Gossamer Condor hangs alongside the Wright Brothers' Flyer and Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, which also includes the Gossamer Albatross and the pterodactyl in its permanent collection...
...Condor Pasa' by Simon and Garfunkel because I would rather be a sparrow than a snail if I could...