Part 2 Tyler MacCready Interview: Making and Selling Walkalong Gliders

1,738 views · Published 30 January 2011 · 18:50 · Indexed 5 October 2026

Channel: sciencetoymaker · 2011 · Education

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In part 2 of 3 Tyler MacCready recounts how the process to patent his walkalong glider revealed an earlier walkalong glider patent from the 1950s--and the mystery thereof. A PBS Scientific American about flight created a marketing opportunity that prompted Tyler to manufacture and distribute the gliders himself--with trials and tribulations.

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