By 1977,technology had developed to the extent that Dr. Paul MacCready successfully flew a 1.6mile long figure of eightin his Gossamer Condor. With the subsequentin corporation of light weight wonder materials such as carbon fibre and Kevlar, two years later the newly developed Gossamer Albatross achieved what was hither to thought impossible, and crossed22! -80s, anAmericancraft, Daedelus, namedafterIcarus’,flewmorethan70,,.