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Flight: Lift (2x13)


Air date: Oct 19, 1983

Paco is trying to understand how a paper airplane files. As part of the studio experiment on lift, Kathy shows the Bernoulli principle with a straw and a glass of grape juice. Jackie witnesses a 17-year-old Chris Bulger hang gliding in the North Carolina mountains. Miguel visits the Kennedy Space Center to discuss the space shuttle orbiter. FILM INSERT: Birds and mammals gliding to save muscle energy. ANIMATION: Lift. BIOGRAPHY: Wing-designer Woodrow Whitlow discusses how his ideas are tested. THE BLOODHOUND GANG: "The Case of the Bottled Boat, Part One." What is with the strange man who had a bottled boat stolen?

  • Premiered: Jan 1980
  • Episodes: 225
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