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regarding a collection of videos by aerodynamicist Alexander Lippisch that had been
gathering dust in university archives since
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and wondered what I would get in return.

included work on the delta wing, tailless
aircraft, and high-performance gliders. In
1946, he immigrated to the United States
as part of Operation Paperclip, the same
program that brought more than 1,600
German scientists, including Wernher von
Braun, to propel American flight research.
In 1950 Lippisch began a 14-year tenure
with the Collins Radio Corporation, during which time he published scientific
papers on his smoke tunnel experiments
and aeronautical innovations. In 1955, he
created The Secret of Flight film series with
the University of Iowa.

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It was the same anticipation I experienced as a child when I had amassed
enough breakfast cereal box tops to send in
and claim my prize. Invariably, though, my
hopes were dashed when a flimsy piece of
plastic or some other throwaway arrived in
the mailbox. Despite this poor track record,
I still deemed the video collection worth
the risk. At worst, I would see the way
aerodynamics was explained in the olden
days, and I'd learn a bit of history. When the
envelope from University of Iowa arrived,
I ran to put the disc in the DVD player and
found the contents of this time capsule far
better than I ever could have imagined.
Lippisch was a German aerodynamicist whose important contributions

The series consists of 13 half-hour
episodes in which Lippisch uses simple
physical models and smoke tunnel videos
that allow the viewer to witness the way
wings produce lift, how they stall, and the
nature of induced drag, to name just a few.
The best part is, despite being at the top of
his field, Lippisch targets a viewer with no
technical background and introduces few
scientific terms and equations. During the
first episode alone, I realized I had been
duped regarding the story of lift by the
manuals I had studied as a student pilot.
I knew about the principle that eighteenth-century mathematician and
physicist Daniel Bernoulli observed about
fluid flow-when the velocity of the flow
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