Skip to content

OU on the BBC: Science Shack - What's the biggest thing that can fly?

Posted under What's On

Adam Hart-Davis and the team investigate the science that keeps things aloft. A brief guide to a visit to the Science Shack.

02 Jun
2006

Production team Adam Hart-Davis sends a flying loop skywards

There is a limit to how big you can build an aircraft. Once it gets to a certain size its mass prevents it staying airborne whatever shape you make it.

But what, exactly, is that size? And what is possible?

Adam investigates the science of making big things fly by building an airship to lift his weight. It may sound easy, but Adam's determined to do it the hard way and build the entire structure out of paper!

First broadcast: Friday 2 Nov 2001 on BBC TWO

Science Shack in more depth:

Rate and share this page:

You haven't rated. Average rating 4.7 out of 5, based on 3 ratings

Share this page:

.

More like this

Comments

Be the first to post a comment.

Login or Register to post comments

Article Information

Publication details
Tuesday, 30th May 2006
Friday, 02nd June 2006

Copyright information
• Body text - Copyright: BBC
• Image 'Adam Hart-Davis sends a flying loop skywards' - Copyrighted: Production team

Article Feeds

If you enjoyed this, why not follow a feed to find out when we have new things like it? Choose an RSS feed from the list below. (Don't know what to do with RSS feeds?)
Remember, you can also make your own, personal feed by combining tags from around OpenLearn.

About OpenLearn

Hide

Explore

Try

Study

OU Courses

Open University

OpenLearn Now

Hide
The truth behind the torch Copyrighted Image London 2012

As the Olympic flame wings its way around the UK, the OU's Aarón Alzola Romero asks: just how immemorial is the Olympic torch relay?

Tag Clouds

Hide

My Cloud

Discover the latest about your passions - Sign In or Register and start a personal tag cloud.

What are Tag Clouds?
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/sites/all/themes/ole/flash/tagcloud.swf

Creative Commons License Except for third party materials and otherwise stated, content on this site is made available
under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence

/openlearn/sites/all/themes/ole/