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Big Blue Sky: The History of Hang Gliding
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- Video Title
- Big Blue Sky: The History of Hang Gliding
- Description
- Bill Liscomb, a pioneer of modern hang gliding, shares the story of this extreme sports birth along the coast of California in the 1970s. Liscomb flew his homemade designs at the early meets and will describe both the technology and the culture of hang gliding. This lecture was presented as part of the GE Aviation lecture series on April 22, 2010.
- Video Duration
- 1 hr 7 min 48 sec
- YouTube Keywords
- aviation air space national museum smithsonian airplane NASA Rocket Jet Discovery SR-71 Blackbird "Space Shuttle" History Science STEM astronaut
- Data Source
- National Air and Space Museum
- YouTube Channel
- airandspace
- Uploaded
- 2010-04-28T04:13:05.000Z
- Creator
- National Air and Space Museum
- Type
- Lectures
- YouTube Videos
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- airandspace
- YouTube Category
- Education
- Topic
- Aeronautics;Flight;Space Sciences
- Record ID
- yt_BbijpbpAH24
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