Name: Warplane Workshop
Released: 2022-11-03T00:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Documentary · Educational

Skilled engineers and pilots are on a mission to return historic warplanes to the air. Crafting new parts by hand, rebuilding broken wings and breathing life back into long-silent engines, these men and women are dedicated to making history fly.

2022 · 46m

EPISODE 1

The Deadliest Spitfire

Skilled engineers and pilots return historic warplanes to the air. Pilot and engineer Richard Grace and his team restore a unique survivor of the Spitfire's rarest mark from 75-year-old wreckage, salvaged from a Belgian scrapyard.
EPISODE 2

Vietnam Vet

Pilot Shona Bowman is determined to get the battered Cessna Bird Dog, a Vietnam War mainstay, that she bought for £10,000 back in the sky. Features recently rediscovered tapes of combat missions over Vietnam recorded by the pilots themselves.
EPISODE 3

Holland's Forgotten Few

Restorers recreate the legendary Fokker DXXI, a Dutch plane that took on Hitler's Luftwaffe and shot down hundreds of enemy aircraft. Features remarkable colour archive footage shot by one of the Dutch pilots.
EPISODE 4

The Plane from Spain

Intrepid pilot Taff Smith rescues the wreckage of a biplane with a sinister history. The Bucker Jungmeister is a relic of General Franco's air force which brought civil war to Spain and introduced the world to the horrors of strategic bombing.
EPISODE 5

Churchill's First Seaplane

On Lake Windermere a restoration team is determined to recreate the first flight of Britain's first seaplane - the Waterbird. But getting 1911 Edwardian technology airbourne proves tough.
EPISODE 6

MI6's Spy in the Sky

A 1930s Lockheed airliner used by MI6 to spy on pre-war Germany is restored to flight by engineer Richard Grace and his team. The restoration reveals tell-tale signs of the plane's top-secret past.