| Genres: | War, Military, Historical |
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In this new and comprehensive 10 part series, we tell the quintessential story of the role planes and their pilots have played in military history. From the engineering marvels and military context through to the remarkable human accounts and characters, each episode will be thematic.
Exploring the role that planes and their pilots have played throughout military history, and how technology allowed aerial warfare to develop beyond the realms of possibility.
An examination of aircraft in the surveillance side of warfare, from the Voisin in WWI, to the Lysander in WWII and their uses in reconnaissance and pick-up missions.
Exploring the role that planes and their pilots have played throughout military history, and how technology allowed aerial warfare to develop beyond the realms of possibility.
An exploration of the Battle of Britain during World War II in which the Royal Air Force defended the UK against German attack in their first major campaign entirely by air.
A look at the birth of the jet engine in 1939, and at the Heinkel, the world's first turbojet aircraft.
Exploring the role that planes and their pilots have played throughout military history, and how technology allowed aerial warfare to develop beyond the realms of possibility.
