

This definitive history of manned flight has been compiled into 26 hour episodes, with access to some of the rarest archive film ever taken. Unprecedented co-operation has been extended by the world's leading aircraft manufacturers and leading archive libraries. Included in the footage are shots of rare prototype accidents and failures which contributed to the inevitable achievement and success of man in the air. Since Charles Lindbergh became the first lone aviator to cross the Atlantic in 1927, air transport has greatly accelerated , revolutionised by the giant Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet - and what might we see in the 21st century?

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AFP: American Fighter Pilot
2002 · TV
The Bomber: Terror of WWII
2022 · TV
The Flying Boats
1980 · TV
Concorde: The Untold Story
2023 · TV
Planes That Changed the World
2015 · TV
First Flights with Neil Armstrong
1991 · TV
Giant of the Skies - Building The Airbus A380
2005 · TV
Great Planes
2008 · TV
Alaska Aircrash Investigations
2016 · TV
Air Australia
2007 · TV
City in the Sky
2016 · TV
Warplane
2006 · TV
First Flights with Kate Broug
2024 · TV
21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777
1996 · TV
Skies Above Britain
2016 · TV
The Arrow
1997 · TV
History of Aviation
1977 · TV
Great Planes
1988 · TV
Battle History of the Air Force
2003 · TV
Flying Through Time
2004 · TV