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.
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.
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.
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.
The Westland Lysander was the ugly-duckling aircraft that shunned the limelight, and the daylight, helping to win the war by supporting covert operations.
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.
Colin W.D. McLean
Narrator
Nik Coleman
Director
Producer
Alex Irven
Writer
