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The Wright Brothers made the world's first powered flights. This video goes into some detail about their accomplishment using original documents. Interesting asides as well. (03:01)
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Five major discoveries about our Sun. Briefly addresses Galileo and the telescope, sunspots, auroras, and space weather. From NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. For elementary, middle, and high school students. (05:28)
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August 16, 2009 at 05:21 PM
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Teachings about the Wright Brothers and flight. Information on the Hindenberg and how the Hot Air Balloon was favored. How a hot air balloon works. Slow motion of 106 hot air balloons taking off in a Reno Festival.
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March 30, 2009 at 01:47 PM
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This NASA video segment explores how Newton's Laws of Motion apply to the drag force on an airplane. Viewers watch an instructor at NASA's National Test Pilot School and learn that the drag force on an airplane in flight is the result of the horizontal momentum of air molecules colliding with the airplane. Viewers also learn that this drag force can be changed by reshaping the airplane, changing the angle of attack, and placing speed brakes on the wings. A demonstration illustrates how the drag force on an object can be determined, while derivations of the drag equation from Newton's second law show how the force can be calculated. Onscreen formulas and calculations represent the forces mathematically. Run time 12:28.
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June 30, 2009 at 12:00 PM
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In 2002, the discovery of a beautiful and bizarre fossil astonished scientists and reignited the debate over the origin of flight. With four wings and superbly preserved feathers, the 130 million-year-old creature was like nothing paleontologists had ever seen before. In this program, NOVA travels to the Chinese stone quarry where the fossil was discovered (a famed fossil treasure trove) and teams up with the world’s leading figures in paleontology, biomechanics, aerodynamics, animation, and scientific reconstruction to perform an unorthodox experiment: a wind tunnel flight test of a scientific replica of the ancient oddity. Dubbed Microraptor, the crow-sized fossil is one of the smallest dinosaurs ever found and one of the most controversial, challenging conventional theories and assumptions about the evolution of flight. But how did Microraptor use its wings? Did it array its arm- and leg-mounted wings in the style of an early 20th-century biplane to produce high lift at low speed? Did it use them to create a single lifting surface for efficient, swift gliding? Did it employ some combination of these two methods? Or were the extra wings useless for flight and likely to have been for some other purpose, such as attracting a mate?
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What is the magnetosphere? Michael Hesse - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center explains that the magnetosphere is the Earth’s magnetic pull related to the particles coming from the Sun that compress the magnetosphere with accelerated particles changing and the solar wind. Michael Hesse studies these though mathematics and computer simulations.
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June 30, 2009 at 12:00 PM
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As a king sits down to dinner, his 14 ducks take flight in this classic video from Sesame Street.
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March 14, 2010 at 09:16 AM
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The Growth of Aviation in the U.S. 1918 - 1990s - The first flights centered around mail delivery in 1918. (01:29)
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June 21, 2011 at 07:46 PM
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Aviator Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. In 1923, Earhart, fondly known as "Lady Lindy," became the 16th woman to be issued a pilot's license. She had several notable flights, becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928, as well as the first person to fly over both the Atlantic and Pacific. In 1937, she mysteriously disappeared while trying to circumnavigate the globe from the equator. Since then, several theories have formed regarding Earhart's last days, many of which have been connected to various artifacts that have been found on Pacific islands—including clothing, tools and, more recently, freckle cream. Earhart was legally declared dead in 1939. In this Biography Channel full length video, learn more about the life of pilot, Amelia Earhart. (43:11)
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Amelia Earhart famed the world over for her record-breaking flights and her work as a pioneer for women’s issues. This is one reason that her disappearance in 1937 has been such an enduring mystery. A number of conspiracy theorists have suggested various hypotheses as to her fate, but she may remain vanished for the ages. (03:21)
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March 28, 2012 at 10:44 PM
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This historical footage, from Universal Newsreels, depicts the first American bombing of Berlin. Prepared for viewing by Americans in movie theaters, this March 20, 1944 video includes interviews with flight crew members after their return to England. (05:46)
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April 17, 2010 at 01:06 PM
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Monkeys "Able" and "Baker" became the first monkeys to survive spaceflight after their 1959 flight. This video is actual news footage from the 1960s. Black and white. (02:08)
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The teacher helps to clear up the confusion between during and while. The word “during” it is followed by a noun. For example, during the flight I slept a lot. The word "while" is followed by a verb. For example, while I was flying I slept a lot. Narrator gives many examples. Clear examples and teaching. (02:52)
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This Biography Channel full length video explores the triumphs and tragedies of Charles Lindbergh, including a look at the kidnapping and murder of his son, as well as his questionable politics prior to America's entry into WWII. Pilot, inventor, writer, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., was born on February 4, 1902, in Detroit, Michigan. Lindbergh became famous for making the first solo transatlantic airplane flight in 1927. (47:19)
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Video discusses Newton's Second Law. Pilot explains g-forces while in flight. Run time 03:59.
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This series looks at how the really gargantuan things of the world work. This episode discusses how the following works: satellite launches, sky cranes, the Goodyear Blimp, Antonov 124, and the Chicago O'Hare Airport, the busiest airport in the world.
Some Learning Questions include: 1. What is one way of counting the number of successes of Russian satellite launches in their control room?
2. How many people pass through O’Hare airport in one year?
3. How many flights go through O’Hare in a day?
4. Who was the first to modify the air crane more commercial use?
5. How many sky cranes were in service during the Vietnam era?
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Climb into the cockpit of an exact replica of the fabled Spirit of St. Louis to experience a riveting, hour-by-hour reenactment of the danger, doubts, and fatigue endured by the young Charles Lindbergh on his record-shattering flights across the Atlantic. From exclusive, rarely-seen archival footage to the high suspense of Lindbergh’s down-to-the-wire race against a formidable field of foreign competitors to be first across the Atlantic, it’s an unforgettable encounter with a true American icon. (54:00)
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People who live north of the equator are experiencing both higher summer temperatures and a greater frequency of extreme bouts of heat, according to a NASA statistical analysis of decades of Northern Hemisphere temperature data. A basic bell curve shows breakdown of these temperatures. Initially, the mean summer temperature for the Northern Hemisphere from 1951-1980 is centered at the top of the curve, with the frequency of cooler summers in blue and the frequency of warmer summers in red. Watch how the frequency of hotter temperatures increases as the visualization moves forward in time, showing how hotter summer temperatures are the new normal.
Data source: Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio (00:16)
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January 15, 2013 at 07:01 PM
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This is a short video about the beginnings of the Wright Brother's quest for flight. It is animated and shows their early idea of modeling gliders like birds' wings. (02:21)
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February 22, 2012 at 12:53 PM
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Earhart Plane
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THE DETECTIVE: Elyse Luray THE PLACE: San Jose, California THE CASE: July 2, 1937: newspapers all over the world report the same event: Amelia Earhart’s airplane disappears over the pacific. The disaster and presumed death of the beloved 39 year-old heroine gripped the public. For decades historians have debated how and where the aviator disappeared. Both scientific and more fanciful theories abound: some surmise she landed on uninhabited Gardner Island. Others suggest she was captured and executed by the Japanese. Less scrutinized is an accident she had four months earlier, during take-off for her around-the-world flight. Did that crash somehow contribute to Earhart’s disappearance? Over seventy years later, History Detectives investigates whether a fragment of metal is from the missing plane. (15:56)
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February 14, 2012 at 10:01 PM
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In this KET video segment from Kentucky Life, learn about dragonflies and damselflies. See these beautiful insects in flight, and learn about their habitats from a biologist. Closed captioning included. Run time 03:32.
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The Inventing Flight video series explores the history and development of flight with special focus on the Wright Brothers from Dayton, Ohio, the inventors of the first practical airplane. In this video episode your host takes you to the year 1900. Because of the advent of invention, discovery, and expansion, people's lives were changing quickly and dramatically. It was during this time that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the first powered airplane. In this video you learn about the Wrights' lives, their times, and their fascination with the possibility of human flight. From the development of their first controllable glider at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina to their dramatic 39 minute flight under complete control on October 5, 1905 in Dayton, Ohio, the history of the invention of the first practical airplane is revealed. (9:39)
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This 5:26 long video shows actually footage of Shepard's flight. He was the first American to be launched into space. Shephard blasted-off in
a Redstone rocket on May 5, 1961. The opening page also contains a biography of his life as it relates to this event.
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March 5, 2012 at 09:06 PM
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The United States' first woman astronaut, Sally Ride, remembers her shuttle flights, and reflects on significant changes affecting Earth's climate since then. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and after reading nonfiction texts about space and/or astronauts. (08:49)
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April 21, 2012 at 03:17 PM
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In this States video, Tom Arnold shares with us why Iowans take care of each other and how they feel protective of one another and their state. He also discusses that the worst thing about Iowa is the lack of a direct flight to the state from Los Angeles. (1:15)
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April 26, 2012 at 11:17 AM
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