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Title: Gossamer Penguin
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Haering, Michael
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1980
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption reads: "Pilot Janice Brown next to the Gossamer Penguin: Aeronautical scientist Paul MacCready, whose pedal-powered airplane flew across the English Channel last year, yesterday unveiled the first completely solar-powered aircraft. The sun-powered propeller on MacCready's 68-pound Gossamer Penguin spun quietly in a land demonstration during a news conference at the California Museum of Science and Industry ... The Penguin, powered by a panel of 18,000 photovoltaic cells mounted above the 72-foot-long wing, has been flown more than 50 times by MacCready's 80-pound, 13-year-old son, Marshall, and by test pilot Janice Brown, a 31-year-old Bakersfield school teacher and veteran glider pilot ... " Photograph dated: June 6, 1980.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00082205
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b012_f3_i37
CARL0000081705
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25087
Subject: Airplanes
Solar vehicles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
MacCready, Paul B

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