There was a time when the DC-3 was the world's most successful aircraft and an indispensable tool: its military version became a crucial factor in achieving peace in various wars and helped many people rise from the ashes during the inevitable humanitarian crises that follow every conflict. But now the Basler factory located in Oshkosh, near Chicago, in the United States, seems to have become a sinister airplane boneyard.
Four hard-hitting stores, from the deadliest period in U.S. Army Aviation, since Vietnam. Actual foo...
The De Havilland Comet was the world's first passenger jet airliner. But less than two years into se...
At any given moment hundreds of people are soaring above us in a 747. From the moment the very first...
On 21 December 1988 a Pan Am 747 jet exploded over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie. On the 25th...
The story of the Avro Arrow, the world's fastest fighter plane built in 1950's Canada, and how the p...
An exhilarating documentary film that celebrates the unsung hero of aviation - the local airport - b...
US federal investigators are called in to determine the cause of a mysterious jetliner crash in Pana...
This documentary profiles the major jets used by the RAF between 1945 and the mid-1950s, the period ...
The story of the Arrow had its origins in the Cold War and the growing spectre of Soviet bombers inv...
Guy joins an ambitious engineering project to recover a crashed WW2 Lancaster Bomber – and the remai...
The 2022 film "Top Gun: Maverick" continues the adventures of the ace fighter pilot made famous by T...
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...
We briefly visit a vast array of various flying objects.
A British expeditionary team attempt a dangerous, world-first circumnavigation of the Earth in an 80...
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.
In 1928, Amelia Earhart gains fame by undertaking a transatlantic flight as a passenger. In 1937, sh...