Loop the Loop

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Science

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2011

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

For most of human history, flight was an impossible dream. In this short, the dizzying rise and fall of a pilot whose aeronautic feats changed aviation forever and turned chancy stunts into acrobatic mastery.

Transcript

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0:06.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:09.4	Radio Lab.
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0:16.5	And NPR.
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0:20.7	Sing it out. Say it out. Good. Hey, I'm Chad I boomerad.
0:24.3	And I'm Robert Prolwitch.
0:25.4	This is Radio Lab.
0:26.4	The podcast.
0:27.5	Lincoln Beachy thought it was a...
0:29.5	Today on the podcast, we start off just for kicks in New York City.
0:34.3	Lincoln Beach, he thought it was a drink.
0:36.4	Harlem with, let's see. I'm Paige Capote. One. Trinise Jones. Two. My name is Catherine Martine and I go to school in C's 200. Three girls. Doing a little jump rope chant. Lincoln Beach, he thought it was a dream to go up to heaven in a flying machine. The machine broke down and down he fell. He thought he got to heaven, but he went to. Lincoln Beachy thought it was a dream. So this is a story actually about the guy at the center of this chant, the guy who's being jump-roped about. Names Lincoln Beachy, and he's... Someone I heard about from a friend of mine. Hello. My name is Sam Kean, and I'm a writer.
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