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Da Vinci: Il Grande Apripista // The Great Trailblazer

Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson

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Leonardo's Dream Machines

Leonardo sco o martin kemp served as a consultant for a tv documentary leonardo's dream machines. Based on his drawings, the team built a hand glider using the same materials available in the fifteenth century. In a moment never before attempted, leonarda's theory of flight was put into practice. We did some test runs down the hill, holding the wings tethered, itis really scary to she was seriously at risk. But it gave the most phenomenal lift. And on the final run, it went further than the right brothers had gone, which was nice. Leonardo held on to the monolisa. It may not have produced a flying machine

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