A British expeditionary team attempt a dangerous, world-first circumnavigation of the Earth in an 80-year-old vintage World War II fighter to inspire a new generation through the freedom of flight.
Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes f...
The De Havilland Comet was the world's first passenger jet airliner. But less than two years into se...
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...
This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to desi...
Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York to Pa...
Spitfires were the nemesis of the Luftwaffe and the instrument which halted Hitler’s plans for invas...
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 ...
On January 26, 1950, a US Airforce troop plane left Anchorage for Montana with 44 people on board. T...
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...
An eccentric history buff lives in a cabin in the woods but spends most of his time flying his bipla...
For early aviators, conquering the forces of gravity was a daunting challenge. But black aviators ha...
The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first succe...
Go higher, faster and farther with the Smithsonian as they explore the dreams of flight.
On an expedition through Latin America, Italian General Italo Balbo made the Atlantic crossing with ...