Reaching for the Skies

The Pioneers

From the Wright Brothers' first controlled-powered flight in 1903 to the advent of the space shuttl...

The Adventures Of Flight

This is the account of the master aviators who pushed back the frontiers and found new ways to use...

The Aeroplane Goes To War

Over France in World War I, where man and flying machines were first forged into a formidable fight...

Victory over the Sea

Since the Second World War, aircraft have played an important role in naval operations...defending...

Bombers

Dresden...London...Vietnam...Tokyo..their names alone are dramatic testimony to the awesome power o...

Fighters

Few aspects of the history of aviation match the vitality, drama and scale of the World War II figh...

Giants of the Air

We take them - the jumbo jets - for granted today, yet overwhelming obstacles had to be overcome to...

Rivals over the Atlantic

The development of the jet engine represented a quantum leap in aviation, and revolutionised commer...

Trail Blazers

The Quest for Speed

This film begins with the SR-71 Blackbird, expressed as the ultimate expression in the quest for sp...

Lighter than Air

Vertical Flight

Examining the history of vertical flight, the program begins with the early helicopters, and then d...