Loop the Loop
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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.
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Oh, wait, you're listening to Radio Lab. Lab. Radio Lab. Shorts. From... WNYC. C. P. P. N.P.R. In the back. Okay. And you can sing it out. Sing it out. Good. Hey, I'm Jada Boomerad. And I'm Robert Colerich. This is Radio Lab. The podcast. Lincoln Beach, he thought of us as... Today on the podcast, we start off just for kicks in New York City. Lincoln Beach, he thought of us as... Harlem. With... I'm P. Capote. One. Chinese Jones. Two. My name is Captain Martine, and I go to school in CS 200. Three girls doing a little jump rope champ. Lincoln Beach, he thought of us as a drink to go up to heaven in a flying machine. The machine broke down, and down he fell. He thought he'd go to heaven, but he went to Lincoln Beach. He thought it was a drink. So this is a story actually about the guy at the center of this chant, the guy who's being jump roped about. Name's 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. And then we met this guy. Hey, hey. My name is Frank Marrero, and together they told us a story of the most famous man you've never heard of. Lincoln Beachy. Can you tell... What can you tell us about Lincoln Beachy the early years? He was, you know, he was born here in San Francisco. Kind of a short kid, sort of lonely, kind of chubby, emotional.
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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.