Special guest Hugh O’Brian has the
panel predict the outcome of events that have occurred or are occurring around
the world during the course of the show.
For example, how many marriage licenses did Los Angeles issue during the
work day? How many discounted kerosene
lamps did the Macy’s store in San Francisco sell? How many air passengers are flying over the
New York area during the show? O’Brian returns at the end of the program to
place phone calls to the various locations and find the answers. O’Brian has just returned from a two week
stint entertaining the troops in Vietnam, and can be seen in the film Ten Little Indians (1965).
John Wimpenny from Hatfield, England: “I took off and flew an
airplane that has no motor…I turned the propeller by pedaling with my feet”
Wimpenny is
an aeronautical engineer whose team designed the pedal-powered plane. In May, 1962 he flew the 115-pound Hatfield Puffin more than half a mile,
at an altitude of about five feet. It
was a distance record that would stand for ten years. Wimpenny and his team were trying to win the
Kremer Prize, a monetary award offered by industrialist Henry Kremer to
pioneering efforts in human-powered flight.
Wimpenny failed to win the prize, which required a mile-long
figure-eight flight. The prize would be won
in 1977 by a team responsible for the Gossamer
Condor. In 1979, that same team
would win a second Kremer Prize when they successfully crossed the English
Channel in the Gossamer Albatross. Other Kremer Prizes remain unclaimed today.
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