The Age of Aerospace

Season 1

2016 · 5 episodes · 3h 30m in all

Episodes

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   1. What Can't We Do?

   1 Feb 2016 · 42 min

   A chronicle of how Bill Boeing and his contemporaries, like Donald Douglas, took the invention of the airplane and forged an industry, delivering advancements in communication, transportation, and warfare.

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   2. Miracle Planes

   8 Feb 2016 · 42 min

   Detailing the role American industry and planes like the Boeing B-17, B-29, and North American P-51 Mustang played in the Allied victory over Germany and Japan.

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   3. Shrinking the Earth

   15 Feb 2016 · 42 min

   The story of three Boeing planes that launched the jet age – the B-47 bomber, the Boeing 707 and the iconic Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet – planes made possible by secrets discovered in a German Forest at the close of WWII.

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   4. In the Vastness of Space

   22 Feb 2016 · 42 min

   The story of Project Apollo and humankind’s first journey to the moon on Apollo 8. NASA icons and individuals from American industry reflect on past achievements and explore humanity’s future in space.

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   5. Dreamliner

   29 Feb 2016 · 42 min

   Revealing the technology, resources, and risk required to build commercial aircraft in the modern world through the story of Boeing's most recent revolution in jet design, the 787.