Name: Plane Resurrection
Released: 2016-04-01T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Colin W.D. McLean

TV Show · Documentary · History

Taking viewers into the cockpits of the worlds greatest restored fighting aircraft, and into the astonishing lives of the modern day heroes who are dedicating themselves to bringing these engineering masterpieces back to life.

2016 · 50m

Starring Colin W.D. McLean

Director Nik Coleman

EPISODE 1

Douglas A1 Skyraider

The story of the heaviest piston-engined fighter ever made. Though called an aerial anachronism, it was to come into its own during the Korean and Vietnam wars.

50 min
EPISODE 2

Percival Mew Gull

The astonishing tale of a tiny 1930s racing aircraft, capable of 230mph, which smashed records all over the world in the hands of an almost-forgotten British hero: Alex Henshaw.

51 min
EPISODE 3

Bell 'Huey'

The `Plane Resurrection' team take to the air in a pristine war-veteran example of the legendary Vietnam-era helicopter, and we learn its astonishing story.

51 min
EPISODE 4

Spitfire

A look at a beautifully restored example of the later, clipped-wing version of the legendary fighter plane, featuring long-unseen test and operational footage.

50 min
EPISODE 5

Westland Lysander

The Westland Lysander was the ugly-duckling aircraft that shunned the limelight, and the daylight, helping to win the war by supporting covert operations.

49 min
EPISODE 6

Bleriot XI

The Bleriot XI was the aircraft that started it all in Europe. The team fly one of only two remaining examples of the monoplane built by Louis Bleriot, the pioneering channel-crosser.

51 min