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Paul MacCready
Skeptical Inquirer, Nov-Dec, 2007
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Paul MacCready was a visionary aeronautical engineer trained at Caltech, the father of human-powered flight (the Gossamer Condor in 1977 and the Gossamer Albatross, which crossed the English Channel in 1979), winner of more than thirty prestigious awards including the Collier Trophy for achievement in aeronautics and astronautics, founder and head of AeroVironment Inc., a strong supporter of efforts to encourage critical thinking and creative thinking, and a Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Fellow. He died August 28 at his home in Pasadena, California, at the age of eighty-one.
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