Nova visits Russia for Nova: Top Gun Over Moscow, a thorough look at the sleekest and most powerful Russian jets. In a word, they are tough. These jets are engineered quite differently from their American counterparts. They function well in adverse conditions, able to take off from open dirt fields, and their continuous operation doesn't depend on regular maintenance. The U.S. jet is finely tuned, requiring more frequent upkeep, but definitely having a high-tech edge, particularly in the areas of radar and missile guidance. Interviews with pilots reveal a very different outlook between the two countries on training goals.
In 1963, President Kennedy recorded one of the most foul mouthed telephone calls ever made from the ...
Travel into the world of aviation and explore the dreams of flight with the Smithsonian as they step...
Go higher, faster and farther with the Smithsonian as they explore the dreams of flight.
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The De Havilland Comet was the world's first passenger jet airliner. But less than two years into se...
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Five women veterans who have endured unimaginable trauma in service create a shared sisterhood to he...
Turkish democracy got over the 27th of May and the 12th of March and set off again, but the storm di...
Turkish democracy got over the 27th of May and the 12th of March and set off again, but the storm di...
Turkish democracy got over the 27th of May and the 12th of March and set off again, but the storm di...
Turkish democracy got over the 27th of May and the 12th of March and set off again, but the storm di...
Turkish democracy got over the 27th of May and the 12th of March and set off again, but the storm di...
Turkish democracy got over the 27th of May and the 12th of March and set off again, but the storm di...
Turkish democracy got over the 27th of May and the 12th of March and set off again, but the storm di...
Turkish democracy got over the 27th of May and the 12th of March and set off again, but the storm di...
We briefly visit a vast array of various flying objects.
The final days of 617 Squadron based at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire. The famous Dambusters squadron...
This documentary profiles the major jets used by the RAF between 1945 and the mid-1950s, the period ...
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