Episode list

Plane Resurrection

Huey

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
The legendary Vietnam-era helicopter takes to the air in a pristine war-veteran example, and we learn the astonishing story of an aircraft blown up by its own missiles, and a wounded co-pilot went on to found a world-leading charity.
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Bleriot

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
One of only two remaining examples of the monoplane built by Louis Bleriot, the pioneering channel-crosser. This elderly aircraft is put gently through its paces for the cameras, leaving the ground on one of its rare outside excursions.
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Spitfire

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
A look at a beautifully restored example of the later, clipped-wing version of the legendary fighter-plane flown by Czech refugee pilots in the UK during wartime, featuring long-unseen test and operational footage.
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Lysander

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
The ugly-ducking aircraft that shunned the limelight - and the daylight. Learn the story of how the aircraft, an initial failure, helped win the war supporting covert operations.
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Mew Gull

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
The astonishing tale of a tiny 1930s aircraft capable of 230mph, that smashed records all over the world in the hands of an almost forgotten British hero, Alex Henshaw.
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Skyraider

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
Developed just too late for WW2, it was called an aerial anachronism - a piston engine warplane in a world of jets and missiles. However, it was to come into its own during the Korean and Vietnam wars
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