Wills Wing on The Discovery Channel 6/11-12

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Wills Wing on The Discovery Channel 6/11-12

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Wills Wing Featured on The Discovery Channel
The Discovery Team shot over 40 hours of design/production footage at the Wills Wing
factory. They compressed it into an 11 minute segment which should be exciting to watch.
Factory Made - Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 8:30 pm
Find out how much safety can be packed into a thin sheet of glass for windshields.
Next, take a high flying trip to Wills Wing, a company that has been making
hang gliders for over three decades.
Then - from gliding to zooming: watch Cessna build its fastest jet ever.
or Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 12:30 am

Discovery Film Crew with hundreds of parts that make up a T2C
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Thanks for the heads up John!
I thought that it was a well done program except that they got a few things wrong. They highlighted the leading edges when describing the crossbars, the flying wires when describing the VG system, and a few other things. But all in all, the segment was quite professionally done. It was cool to get a peak inside Will's Wing's factory, especially their plotter. Very cool. In case you missed it, check it out here. http://www.vimeo.com/1161514
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Thanks for the link Dan.
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