Shapes: Streamlining

Season 2Episode 2830 minNov. 23, 1983
Shapes: Streamlining
Miguel and Robin attach a speedometer on a bicycle so they and Paco can see how fast Paco can really ride his bike. Jackie meets with MIT engineers who built a streamlined bicycle, the longest in the wirld. ANIMATION: Laminar flow. At Miguel's house, Kathy tells Robin about the odometer on a bicycle. They decide one of them rides 2,000 miles a year on a bicycle. FILM INSERT: Streamlining isn't the only thing that lowers air resistance in high-speed travel. Robin and Kathy find the hole in Kathy's flat tire by putting the tire in a tub full of water. Miguel talks to Diane Green, a champion windsurfer, about sailboards. Green builds a sailboard herself and gets Miguel on another sailboard (temporarily). FILM INSERT: The streamlined shape of salmon and other fish, beavers, penguins, and dolphins. Robin and Kathy patch up the tire and test it in the tub. THE BLOODHOUND GANG: ""The Case of X Marks the Spot, Part One."" Vikki is entered in a village's ten-mile race. One of the runners, tho
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