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Plane Crazy
1929 · Film · short · 6 min
Directed by Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks
Referred as the actual first Mickey Mouse short. Inspired by Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris, Mickey builds a plane to take Minnie for a trip.
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He's funny, he's knowledgeable, he writes well, he was there during the most entertaining span of decades for the personal computer.
BTW, if you ever caught Cringely's PBS series where he tried to make a homebuilt aircraft it was a fascinating case study of hubris (Cringley's), modern construction vs. tried and true techniques, and another rare example of when a documentary that starts out about one thing decides to take on a life of its own and ends up going somewhere else.
Edit: looks like someone digitized their VHS copy of "Plane Crazy" and kindly uploaded to YouTube: https://youtu.be/FSNzF-KSGiw?si=2bK0aycpGpEzbydI
Another interesting project post-mortem from Robert Cringely was his ambitious attempt to design, build and fly an airplane in 30 days as part of a PBS documentary Plane Crazy.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/1998/pulpit_19980724_000578.html
He also did a miniseries on PBS called "Plane Crazy" in which he tries to build an airplane in 30 days.
It actually has some good start-up lessons in there!
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/1998/pulpit_19980724_000578.html
Cringely actually tried to design his own plane in 30 days in an interesting PBS documentary:
http://www.amazon.com/Plane-Crazy-3pc-Gift-Set/dp/B00003A9RW
Join Robert X. Cringely, computer industry gossip columnist and high-tech gadfly as he sets out to design, build and fly an airplane in 30 days